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 first lights
After Thomas Edison figured out how to mass produce the light bulb and keep it affordable his next task was to figure out how to get it accepted into people's...
What we have isn't what we want
What comes out of your home's power wall socket is not what anything in your stereo system needs. In fact, what comes out of your home's wall socket is the...
Using what we don't want
Yesterday I wrote that the power coming into your stereo system is every bit as important as the bits of analog or digital that are used to manipulate it into...
Let's switch gears
We've been focusing on streaming audio recently and I want to take a bit of a break and spend some time exploring power and microphonics and I'll tell you why:...
Beethoven was not the artist
Another consistent error I see is listing the composer of classical music as the artist or album artist. If you have a copy of a recording performed by Ludwig Beethoven...
Consistently different
It's amazing how difficult it is to achieve simple clarity in anything. We all admire a simple easy to understand operation of a product that seems so obvious to us...