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
Skill and ingredients
As a reasonably competent photographic hack (you can see my photo gallery here), I can confidently say that Ansel Adams could take a better picture regardless of equipment. Give him...
Contradicitions
Contradictions are all around us. For a musical example, John Lennon's lyrics, "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" from The Beatles' 1968 White Album was a contradiction taken from a magazine ad...
I am an engineer…
…and I don't find this very convincing. Well, of course you don't. How could you? You've never given it the time of day. One of the classic traps we find...
The size of hardware
Hardware is getting smaller and smaller. The original computers were the size of small auditoriums, while today, they can fit on the head of a pin. This miniaturization has worked...
A badge of honor
I was recently referred to as a lunatic. The incident happened when I was attempting to explain the difference in recording techniques between Octave Records' new studio and the big...
The argument
Most arguments arise out of a basic misunderstanding. I declare the sky is blue; you argue it's gray, and we realize we're not in the same city. In one of...