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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Looking deeper

Paul McGowan

Yesterday I explained why use of the (then) new category of IC op amp was so darned attractive back in the 1970's and still is today: easy to design with,...

Op amps

Paul McGowan

I promised yesterday we'd get started understanding op amps. I know some of you already get them so I hope you can tolerate some simple explanations. This subject is actually...

The man who designed everything

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I mistakenly called the great David Hafler "Bob". Oops, I think I had "Bob" on the brain. Sorry. But speaking of history, I think the stories of...

The mayor of Silicon Valley

Paul McGowan

When we first started PS Audio back in the dark ages of the early 1970's there was no such things as email, the World Wide Web or, for that matter,...

We got no op amps in here boss

Paul McGowan

I am always amused when I read in a manufacturer's marketing description that they don't use op amps in their audio designs - when what they actually mean is they...

Stereo

Paul McGowan

This is the final in our little series on live vs. recorded. We've ben discussing recordings and how it is that with some types of recordings and setup we can...