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 cure can be worse than the disease
In our comments about amplifier damping and how higher damping factors offer better control of the loudspeaker than that of low damping factors, several of you wrote suggesting that some...
Cartridge damping
In yesterday's post about amplifier dampingwe covered what it meant and what happens when a power amplifier loses control of the loudspeaker - you get differences in amplitude that are...
Damping factor
The damping factor of a power amplifier is a metric used to describe the amplifier's ability to control the loudspeaker. It's basically calculated by dividing the amplifier's output impedance into...
Two types of customers
I am convinced there are two main types of customers for high-end audio: dealers and end users. If you're a manufacturer which customer do you design your product for? Both...
Cameras and stereos
I am a photo buff. Have been shooting pictures both as a professionaland anamateurfor most of my adult life. I shoot with a fancy pro camera. I shoot because I...
Visionary vs. engineer
My friend Mark Levinson, the man not the company, is a visionary not an engineer. In fact, I doubt Mark knows how to design anything electronic yet his namesake adorns...