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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Adding or subtracting
I was recently asked how it is possible that the Digital Lens improves sonic qualities. To this person, it made no sense. The Digital Lens, technology found in all of...
The Vanishing Trick
Loudspeakers are quite the enigma. On the one hand, one of our key purchasing decisions is based on their size and looks. On the other hand, we want them to...
Live At Nocturne
I hope at some point you have the time and opportunity to have a listen on a good system to our first live album ever. Gabriel Mervine’s Live at Nocturne was an...
Sequencing
Whenever I give advice about the order of importance for building from scratch a magical audio system I start like this: Speakers Amplifier AC power Source This order is based...
The Preamplifier
A traditional preamp (the pre – amplifier, the interface before the main power amp) had four main functions: input selection, phono stage, gain stage, volume/balance control. Preamplifiers were the center of the HiFi system—the...
We've known it all our lives
In my recent post, Timbre, I brought up a number of examples of instruments that have unique timbre. But, one of the problems we have in evaluating how well our...