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 best mistakes
Mistakes are underrated teachers. I’ve learned more about speaker placement from getting it wrong than I ever have from getting it right. You toe a pair of speakers in just...
Lights out
Sometimes the best listening happens in the dark. There’s something that changes when you turn the lights off. The room disappears. Your eyes stop scanning. You’re no longer distracted by...
Taming the room
The room is the most important component you never plug in. It’s funny—we’ll obsess over cables, power supplies, even fuse direction. But the room? That big, reflective, resonant space we...
The beam
Ever feel like you're inside a sonic flashlight? That’s beaming—a focused, narrow dispersion of sound that locks you in like a tractor beam. Large panel speakers, ribbons, electrostatics—they’re often guilty....
Sweet spot
I doubt there's an audiophile worth his salt that hasn't offered the chair of honor to a friend. The sweet spot. The golden chair. Here's the thing. That sweet spot's...
Resolving vs. revealing
It might seem like semantics, but I think it’s something more. A resolving system has the technical chops to pull out every last detail. It’s about capability. How much information...