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
Front And Center
If the goal of high-end audio is to recreate the sound of live musicians in our rooms why do nearly all studio recordings place the main vocal in the center?...
What is flat?
How can flat-measuring speakers sound different? And for that matter, how can same-measuring-anything sound different? The answer lies in a couple of areas. First, we do not measure all parameters...
The practiced ear
As a lifelong photographer, I have, over many decades, developed a practiced eye. What's that mean? Simply that my eye/brain connections are wired to see through the camera's viewfinder in...
12 notes
I have always found it intriguing that the 12 musical notes in Western music, also known as the chromatic scale, can be combined and arranged in various ways to create...
Art Of HiFi Series
Thank you for all the kind words from those just now receiving their SACD copies of The Art of HiFi Series: Bass. (I especially liked “rattled my wife’s dental plates”) What’s next in...
Ground Point
I am often asked to explain ground. No, not dirt, but electrical ground. Counter to what many people might imagine—that ground has something to do with Earth—ground is defined as...