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
Expressions
All creatures telegraph to the world their emotional states. To express happiness a dog wags her tail, a cat purrs, we humans bare our teeth. Whenever someone new has a chance to...
Trade offs
I cannot think of much in our quest for audio nirvana that doesn't involve compromise—or the more acceptable term, trade offs (Compromise feels like we're giving up something while trade offs seems to...
Carbon copy
Before the widespread introduction of the plain paper copier in the 1970s, the only way to get a duplicate of a typewritten document was to make a carbon copy at the...
Warm it up!
An interesting question was posed to me recently. "Can a manufacturer PLEASE develop an amp with a variable control of cool to warm. This can be set to cool for...
What if you could have it all?
When it comes to your high-end audio system, what would that look like? The finest electronics, cables, and speakers? A magical all in one box? A miracle point source loudspeaker the...
The missing element
When I have a live band to record at Octave Records one of the first things I do is stand right in the middle of the tracking room to get a...