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
Starting point
I don't think I have ever seen or heard of anyone simply up and deciding to assemble a high-end audio system out of the blue. I mean, have you? It sounds...
You cannot outrun progress
Over the past 50 years I have learned an incredible amount about engineering, running a business and building great audio equipment. I think of it like a journey. How did...
Better than real?
There seems to be a riff circulating around that some folks don't like the sound of some equipment because it sounds too real. "Not everyone wants real," goes their mantra....
Amplifying the silence
While it may sound counterintuitive, one of the goals we strive for in high-end audio design is magnifying the quiet areas of music. In the same way a skillful painter uses...
Emotional measurement
Can we measure an emotional response to music? This was the ultimate question on my short list of impossible measurement challenges but it turns out to be one of the...
Timbral accuracy
Is it possible to measure timbral accuracy? While frequency response measurements can tell us a lot, they don't fully convey how accurately an audio system reproduces the unique textures and...