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 building of a cable
Years ago, I became fascinated with the idea of power cables making a sonic difference. No, at first it didn't make any sense. What could the last 1 meter of...
Maintaining order
The natural order of things in the universe turns out to be a combination of order and chaos. For example, the movements of planets and stars are governed by well-understood...
The tape filter
Heading back in Paul's way back machine to 1968, when I first began working at our local FM radio station, and then a few years later, when I moved up...
Standards
If you ever wondered how standards like line level, input impedance, RIAA, or AES/EBU came to be, the first thing you should consider is why. Why do they exist in...
24 vs. 32
As Audiophiles, we lean toward the extremes: lower distortion, greater dynamic range, lower noise, higher resolution. So, what of the debate about the benefits of 24-bit resolution vs. 32 bits?...
The Germans have it
All over the world, there are great brands of microphone manufacturers. In Denmark, there are DPA, Brüel & Kjær, and TC Electronic. In the United Kingdom, Aston Microphones. In the...