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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We discover digital isn't all bad
The dawn of the CD era began in the early 1980's and at that time there were initially only two CD players mass marketed: Sony and Phillips made both and...
The 70's crusades
Yesterday I gave an example of how the addition of two one cent resistors turned a fatiguing solid state preamp into a warm tube-like device. Two resistors! That's not much...
Back when vinyl ruled
I remember the first time I became aware of what we call Listener Fatigue. It was many years ago when there was only turntables, vinyl and most people listened to...
Conflating
I learned a new word from one of my readers this morning: conflate. It means confusing two messages together and apparently that's what I did yesterday in my post; so...
Piano keys
"Great distortions annoy; lesser distortions fatigue." Great quote from one of our readers and it's quite appropriate as we start looking at Listener Fatigue. I didn't want to just examine...
Bipoles
Bipole loudspeakers have sound coming out the front and the rear, just like a dipole. They are bi-directional at higher frequencies, unlike the sealed box I described earlier, which we...