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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No surprises

Paul McGowan

We discovered in yesterday's post one of the reasons different CDs with the same data can sound different. Today let's examine some other mechanisms, such as a hard disc or...

Look alikes

Paul McGowan

We've been writing about the clues that help us figure out why CDs, hard drives and different medium do not sound the same. And the answer, as many of you...

Reading clues

Paul McGowan

It is not difficult to imagine the differences in mechanics between a CD player and a hard drive. A CD player uses a laser to bounce a tiny beam of...

Misdirection

Paul McGowan

Giving facts to the reader that misdirect, yet are accurate, is a key element in the writing of a mystery novel. These work because the reader cannot refute them, thus...

Clues

Paul McGowan

I am a fan of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries as portrayed in the BBC series starring David Suchet. In fact, he's one of my all time favorite actors portraying...

Great mysteries

Paul McGowan

I wracked my brain this morning while on a hike. I was trying to think of any other technology where a copy is better than the original and I could...