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
Peaks and dips
No room has flat frequency response. There are always peaks and dips, but one is easier to deal with than the other. Take for example bass frequencies of 100Hz and...
An Axpona conversation
While at the busy Axpona show, last week, I got the opportunity to be interviewed by a wonderfully tolerant and forgiving person, Joe Currao. As you can see in the...
The complexity of easy and better
I remember being one of the very first nerds to purchase the world's biggest commercially available hard drive of that day. 40 megabytes. Before hard drives of this size we...
The HiFi joke
I'm sure you've heard the joke. "Audiophiles buy music to hear their HiFi systems." And sure, there's an element of truth to this: that great recording that drops jaws, the...
Being in the room
I often describe the desired experience of high end audio as one of live—as if the musicians were captured live. One of our HiFi Family members pointed out a problem...
Deviating from the script
For a musician to play precisely what Beethoven or Mozart penned takes years of practice. And even then, not everyone can reach that lofty goal. But it is the rare few...