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
Looking through glasses
How very strange the way music travels through a wire. Imagine trying to explain to someone from the past that it does. He would think you a magician or a...
Capacitors
Inside a film capacitor there's not a lot going on: plastic and tin foil mainly. Other types of capacitors known as electrolytics, used mostly in power supplies, also have nasty...
Is 'bits is bits' bunk?
"It can't sound any different, bits is bits!" And yet the empirical evidence suggests otherwise in example after example: comparison between DACs, hard drives vs. optical medium, digital cables, power...
Observations and expectations
One of the pitfalls of being an evaluator is presupposing the results. For example, if you test drive a new car and think "I am going to like this car"...
It's ok to make the wrong call
Critics are people whose opinions are valued by others, and we're all critics to someone. Perhaps your children look to you for approval on food, movies or entertainment. Or maybe...
Sommelier of the ear
I watched with fascination as aspiring sommelier's identified wine types by tasting. Not only did they accurately identify year, country and vineyard, but in some cases much more. And all...