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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The Lab Cable
Taking my homemade prototype power cable to the next level and manufacturing the wire itself seemed like a relatively easy exercise. I would simply call one of the big suppliers...
The prototype
Once the homemade power cable was finished I immediately connected it to the preamp. Interesting. The most immediate thing I noticed was an increased openness without brightness that was never...
Homemade Cables
Fatter wire sounds fuller, skinnier wire sounds thin, shielded wire sounds cleaner but veiled, stranded wire sounds one way and solid core thicker wire sounds yet another. These findings were...
Witches brew
In my new found quest to figure out why power cables made a difference in my preamplifier circuit I began to suspect that I wasn't adding fullness or, for that...
Makes my head hurt
I had accidentally stumbled on something interesting in my development of a new preamplifier: a 14 gauge small diameter power cable didn't sound as good as a larger diameter 12...
Stock cables
During the latter half of the 1990's I was busy with a new preamp design that was more of a personal project than anything for the company. That project would...