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
Pondering
Yesterday I proposed a thought problem once again. This time we compared the direct output of a stereo microphone vs. the recorded output of that same microphone while a group...
Whoa Nellie
Yesterday's post got quite a few of you riled up when I suggested a guitar pickup is just as sensitive to transients and subtle details and produces the same "simple"...
The outer edges
We've taken a simplistic look at recordings and shown what's probably obvious to most - that recording and reproducing simple electrical signals like those out of a guitar is rather...
Making matters worse
In yesterday's post I expanded the thought problem to using a microphone to now capture the live sound and then what happens when we play it back. It doesn't sound...
One step further
In yesterday's post I put forth the idea that it doesn't seem to matter sonically what you might feed into a guitar amp/speaker combo - a live guitar or a...
First thought puzzle
I find it valuable to create thought puzzles to try and answer perplexing questions about our art. I thought I might share a few with you and then post about...