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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Lunch is served

Paul McGowan

As a vegetarian for most of my adult life I don't eat meat, fish or crow. Because I promised all of you I would eat crow if I was wrong...

Palpability

Paul McGowan

I thought today I'd touch on the term Palpability for a couple of reasons: I use it to describe certain aspects of what we hear in our stereo systems and...

LFE

Paul McGowan

I was thinking about these Audiophile terms we use this morning and it occurred to me that perhaps one of the more frustrating and misused terms is Low Frequency Extension....

Transparency

Paul McGowan

Continuing with Audiophile terms I find Transparency a much used term that perhaps is a bit nebulous and easy to overuse. One of the first things you notice about many...

Openness

Paul McGowan

To start this series on Audiophile terminology, I wrote a list and at the top of that list was openness. I suppose it's on the top of my list because...

Audiophile terms

Paul McGowan

I use plenty of Audiophile terminology in my writings. Lots. From time to time readers have asked me to define those terms as they apply to what we hear and...