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 era of the preamp is over
As you probably are aware TAS (the magazine) is publishing a major review on the PerfectWave system in their September issue that starts mailing out today. Since part of the...
Hogwash
Have you ever noticed that if you have an opinion about something it can easilybedismissedor agreed upon as soon as you know there's a term or explanation for it? For...
I was just thinking
I was thinking about some of your comments about your systems: many of you mentioned that your systems were good enough to reproduce well recorded music as if it were...
Trumpets
After writing yesterday's post about perfection I was looking for an example to share with you and then it hit me: Al Hirt vs. Louis Prima. When I was growing...
The thing about perfect
Perfection is an interesting concept and sometimes it serves us and sometimes it doesn't. For example when a musician spends their life perfecting their craft to be able to play...
bring water to horses
Yesterday I modeled what would happen if you moved a perfect reproduction of a live venue to your home. It wouldn't sound live because of the change of venue. We...