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
Balanced view
I get a lot of questions about balanced audio. You know, the kind that looks like a bigger cable and is not the standard RCA type. Of course we've spent...
Bit of this, bit of that...
No, we don't listen to bits. Do we? Not if we listen to PCM we don't. PCM is a type of code that goes through a secondary operation before getting...
Asking the right questions
The answers we get depend largely on the questions we ask. Seems simple enough, yet why is it we're always surprised with those answers? I remember asking the kids if...
The new tuner
I was thinking of the my favorite tuners this morning. For many years I listened to a Marantz Model 120 (with the silly display). I also enjoyed a Magnum Dynalab...
Two finger flying
Hey, it's Saturday and I feel like telling a little story unrelated to audio. As a young lad of 15 years I was both a photographer and a cub reporter...
Bonding with machines
We all bond with machines. No, I'm not getting kinky, but you know what I mean. We fall in love with the Marantz tuner, the power amplifier, a favorite DAC,...