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
How many are we?
Watching a TV show the other day, and the main character turned to the other and said, "Ask yourself this question." Ask yourself? Who exactly is doing the talking here?...
Effortless
We're happiest when we aren't aware of the effort required to get somewhere. Years ago, I was driving an old VW bus with its standard "adequate" engine. If I wanted...
The how
When we capture and convert audio waveforms, how we do it matters. For example, if we're making a recording onto the old standard of magnetic tape, we're going to lose...
Making sense of the impossible
Take a pair of Stellar M1200 power amplifiers, connect both to a 15 amp 120-volt line, and play your system as loud as you dare. It'll sound amazing and it...
Up and over
When we want more of a good thing, it's important to understand which "more" matters. Take upsampling and oversampling: buzzwords tossed around like spare change. Both processes offer more but...
Disruption
PS Audio was founded on the idea of disrupting the marketplace. In 1974, we launched a $59.95 phono stage that challenged the 20X more expensive competition. And we didn't stop...