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
Dr. Seuss and HiFi
When I was growing up, my father made his living selling telephone equipment for the company, Stromberg Carlson. While I had no interest in the company's telephones and intercoms, their...
The joy of wrong
For most of us, being wrong is something to be avoided at all costs. It can be embarrassing, uncomfortable, and sometimes damaging to our self-esteem. I'd like to suggest a...
Short and sweet
Well, no sooner did I publish my short and sweet post, How many Wows, than I received another in my email box. Bob Woodburger sent me the following message and...
Defining what matters
We often take standards for granted. Yet, inevitably, there's a long history behind their creation. Take the idea of measuring distortion. Today, it seems rather obvious that before we listen...
Capacitors
Inside a film capacitor there's not a lot going on: plastic and tin foil mainly. Other types of capacitors known as electrolytics, used mostly in power supplies, also have nasty...
How many wows?
While thumbing through forum posts, I ran across this comment in the FR20s are here thread: "I’m also driving my FR20s by M1200s. I don’t remember how many times I...