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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Paul's Posts
Upside down amps
A Stellar M1200 power amplifier sounds different when placed upside down. Now that's a rather silly statement, right? Not so fast. Consider for a moment the difference in sound quality...
Sonic penalties
When there's cake to be had we want to eat it. Features and services? We want those too just not with any added sonic penalties. Take for example the idea...
Badmouthing AES/EBU
A few days ago I wrote that in multiple listening tests we've found that there's no sonic advantage to using the XLR AES/EBU inputs on a DAC rather than the...
Mount Massive
Big sonic improvements are rare. Smaller improvements feel big and I am the first to jump up and down with excitement when I hear a layer of the sonic onion peel...
Being best
My sometimes (often) over exuberance at how something sounds or performs is probably something I'll never get over. I like getting excited and I thrive on being part of something that...
Coax vs. USB
One question that comes up a lot about the new AirLens is it's lack of a USB output. To explain, the AirLens has two galvanically isolated outputs to feed your...