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
The challenge of transitions
Over the past few days we've been reviewing a bit of HiFi history that amplified (pun intended) the observation that transitional improvements lead to better audio. The examples were moving from...
In and outs
As long as we're ruminating about the historical progress of our equipment we would be remiss not to include the inputs and outputs. In the 70's and into the 80's...
Pulling the plug
In the early days of separates I cannot remember one amp, preamp, or turntable that had a removable power cord. In fact, they all had a lamp cord with a...
Historical progress
For many years every preamplifier on the market was capacitor coupled, input to output. Power amps were universally input capacitor coupled, some were even cap coupled at their outputs. That...
For the price of a component
I have recently had one of the most extraordinary unexpected experiences of my life. When our loudspeaker designer, Chris Brunhaver, invited me to finally hear the production ready version of our newest...
Lifestyle stereo
When it comes to accelerating from 0-60 my electric car will whoop the pants off nearly every slick looking, fire breathing, gasoline "sports" car made. It just doesn't look like it...