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
Family jewels
Gain stages are like the family jewels. They need to be protected. To be specific, there are two types of gain stages: current and voltage. It is the latter type...
Less than amazing
On the phone yesterday with a mix engineer that I was preparing tracks for, I found myself feeling like I had jumped through a time machine. We had just finished...
Armchair warriors
I know how to fly a plane. I have even sat in the jump seat of a 747 and observed every step the pilot made to safely land the beast. Despite...
Heart and soul
Every product in your system is a manifestation of a designer's heart and soul. Someone, somewhere, had a vision or a directive and from that they proceeded to create a...
Secondary effects
When we need an energy boost we sometimes drink a caffeinated beverage and bingo! We're energized. Did the coffee act as a battery unleashing energy or did it trigger a...
Direct to disc
For many years, record labels like mastering engineer Doug Sax's Sheffield produced some extraordinary vinyl call Direct To Disc (DTD). The idea behind this type of recording was to eliminate...