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
Aha! moments
There's perhaps nothing better than an aha! moment: the lightbulb flicks on, the answer to the problem is clear, the puzzle is solved. The trick with aha! moments is to actually...
Judging an amp by its Watts
Most of us would snicker if told the way to choose a power amplifier is by its Wattage. The greater the amp's power output the better it will sound. For those...
Family jewels
Gain stages are like the family jewels. They need to be protected. To be specific, there are two types of gain stages: current and voltage. It is the latter type...
Less than amazing
On the phone yesterday with a mix engineer that I was preparing tracks for, I found myself feeling like I had jumped through a time machine. We had just finished...
Armchair warriors
I know how to fly a plane. I have even sat in the jump seat of a 747 and observed every step the pilot made to safely land the beast. Despite...
Heart and soul
Every product in your system is a manifestation of a designer's heart and soul. Someone, somewhere, had a vision or a directive and from that they proceeded to create a...