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
Riding the crest
I promised yesterday we'd start to learn what Crest Factor is and how it applies to headroom in an amplifier. While understanding this concept isn't all that important to making...
Measuring the standard
We're moving into a series on power amplifier headroom for a couple of reasons: first I think most people really don't understand just how much power is enough and secondly,...
Headroom
I suppose the term "headroom" must have come about in response to tall people trying to make sure there's enough room for their heads to go through a doorway or...
The ultimate point source
Several of you asked me why I was so interested in a 20+ year old pair of loudspeakers that I would sell everything in the listening room to get it...
The short life argument
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to mentally take a leap? It's as if there are two of me inside my head: the cautious Paul and the crazy...
My consumer hat
In Stereophile Magazine's March issue John Atkinson opines about the goals and challenges of reviewing audio equipment: a challenging task to do it as well and as thoroughly as does...