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
Splice and dice
When I worked as a disc jockey, recording engineer, and interviewer back in the 70s and 80s, all we had at to record and edit with was analog tape. Editing the analog...
Hands on
2,450 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote: "“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that...
Feelback
We're all familiar with the requirement that our systems accurately reproduce every audible frequency from the lowest to the highest. But what of those bass frequencies we cannot hear but...
Feedback
Feedback can be a real blessing or, in some cases, a curse. Take for example helpful feedback: gently pointing out what someone's saying or doing isn't working well. The recipient feels better. But then...
How long does acceptance take?
We are constantly faced with waves of new technology. Some tech sticks while other tech at first dazzles and then fades away. Once presented new technologies, how long does it...
75 times
As of today, I have successfully circled the sun 75 times. What a ride! As I look back, my journey has been made a wondrous joy because of all the people...