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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The perfect blend

Paul McGowan

When working with sweeteners and spices, the perfect blend makes magic. A little less, and it's bland. A little more, and it's overblown. In electronic design, one can play with...

Ripples

Paul McGowan

Ripples are a mixed bag. They are gently welcomed in a pond, not good when it comes to branding wine, and definitely unwelcome in a power supply. Power supply ripple...

Impedance vs. regulation

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post, I wrote about the importance of lower impedance in the AC line voltage. I mentioned that lowering the impedance is far more important than cleaning up the...

Getting it straight

Paul McGowan

It doesn't take long to figure out the importance of AC power, and perhaps no device can better demonstrate the advantages of perfect AC than a Power Plant. I wonder...

Inches matter

Paul McGowan

Loudspeaker setup is a funny thing. Inches matter for the speaker's position, yet those minuscule changes affect a much larger area in the seating position. Why would that be? With...

Libraries

Paul McGowan

At the end of the proverbial day, we all have some sort of musical library—something more than just a jumble of discs. For some, our libraries live in the cloud:...