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
Building a pattern
One of the most valuable tools I have in my listening arsenal is a set of favorite recordings I use over and over. Most of you probably have a few...
Comparing notes
Think for a moment how challenging it must be to review a product for one of the publications that do so. You're sent a new product, perhaps a DAC, and...
Emotions on high
I wrote yesterday about the furious battles over double blind ABX testing yesterday and why they don't work for finding out the truth in listening. I should also mention that...
A or B?
In our ongoing series of the Art of Listening it makes sense to touch on ABX testing, a subject that has caused no end of confusion and mistrust over the...
Suspicions confirmed
Yesterday we discovered through our new found listening and relating skills that despite what our meters were telling us, we made a much better sounding phono preamplifier by increasing the...
First differences
Yesterday I touched on one of the first big learning experiences I had as a designer: trying to sort out what I heard relative to what was happening electronically. It's...