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
Large volumes of air
In yesterday's post I talked about dynamics and how many smaller speakers simply cannot reproduce those dynamics accurately. One of my readers pointed out something obvious - the amount of...
Overkill
When a trumpet or trombone plays loudly - or a bass drum or gong is hit hard - the sound that is produced by the instrument is dynamically linear with...
The rewards of difficulties
Most mornings I get up and after my coffee I run or head to the gym and workout for 45 minutes. It's always a struggle and I battle with myself...
On the lower end of things
My son wants a simple setup to go from one of the little $99 Apple Airport Express devices to a good sounding power amp to play music on a pair...
Getting just enough
In the late 1970's I began experimenting with planar loudspeakers: first with Magnepans and later with electrostatic loudspeakers - specifically the Acoustat 2+2 which happened to be tall enough to...
Good reading
In the July issue of the Absolute Sound Magazine, editor Robert Harley writes a very informative article entitled What exactly are CD-quality and high resolution audio? It's an article worth...