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
Preamp headroom
Headroom is the amount of space between the highest level of an audio signal and the maximum level that the system can handle without distortion or clipping. When we think about...
GIGO
Garbage In, Garbage Out. That acronym is used in the computer industry to mean if you feed the computer garbage data, that's what it'll spit out. But GIGO can also...
Do it yourself
Back in the early 1970s there were very few people I knew without a pair of speakers, a receiver, a turntable. and a stack of records either on the floor or lining...
Is one enough?
I have long been an advocate of stereo subwoofers: one for the left and one for the right. Today, I am a bit more cautious when making such a recommendation....
Point of perspective
Having been raised on Fahrenheit, feet, and inches, it's a challenge to know how hot or cold something is in centigrade. 40 C seems like winter. Much of how we...
Bag of tricks
For any of us working with high-end 2-channel audio systems for any reasonable amount of time, we've managed to collect our own bag of tricks—our go-to procedures for everything from system...