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
It's obvious
Ever notice how something is obvious only after someone points it out to you? In our post on Software Jitter I got several emails from folks telling me "that's an...
The death of the album?
Dave Paananen, our director of engineering, asked "Isn't it obvious the need for an album or CD is rapidly becoming unnecessary?" At first I dismissed the thought, so ingrained is...
Software jitter
Just when we thought we had it all figured out along comes a new form of distortion to tackle: software jitter. The culprit here is, unfortunately, a very necessary component...
When it's just good enough
Alan Sircom, writing in the April issue of Hi Fi Plus magazine, suggests that the problem with getting newcomers into the high-end is they already find their means of reproducing...
It's gotta happen in 3 minutes!
We wanted to be able to explain how a Power Plant regenerator works in less than 3 minutes to people who had zero technical knowledge. I didn't want an ad...
Why everything matters in today's high-end...
In 1973 when we first started PS Audio everything mattered to the sound quality path: types of capacitors, types of transistors, resistors, circuit topology, connectors, power supplies, chassis builds and...