PS Audio founder and CEO, Paul McGowan, writes a daily blog: short, informative, fun, often controversial, but always interesting. Subjects range from personal stories, how to setup your system, news of the day, streaming, vinyl, tubes, transistors, loudspeakers, holographic imaging and more. Kind of like the Car Talk of audio. Not much is sacred, and there’s rarely a mention of our own products.
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Basic vs. simple
Creating a complex product that features an elegant simplicity—like an iPhone—is exponentially more difficult than building an elegantly simple, but basic product. To the user, the two might seem similar but...
So....
Before we get started there are two housekeeping items to attend to. First, apologies for yesterday's long post. Second, as some correctly pointed out, a byte is technically 8 bits...
Bits vs. bytes
Want to cross your eyes this morning? There's always a lot of questions when it comes to how we at Octave Records make our recordings. Why? Because we don't do what...
Dealing with the good and the bad
One of my greatest life lessons is to be good with the bad. By that I mean getting not only comfortable with my weaknesses, but actually embracing them as strengths. As a...
Scientific versus purist
One definition of distortion would be to say any deviation whatsoever of the original audio signal. If the output of our amplifier is identical in every respect to its input then...
Sub ins
In yesterday's post, Sub outs, I fear I got so involved in the discussion as to completely ignore a long standing rule that the best way to connect a subwoofer...