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
Musical chairs
We all know that pulling the speakers away from the front wall improves imaging. But not everyone has the space—or the domestic negotiation skills—to do it. If your speakers must...
Getting lost
It’s easy to get lost chasing specs, topologies, and cable types. Happens to the best of us, right? Balanced or single-ended. Differential or ground-referenced. Small signal, big signal. It’s enough...
Equal amplifiers
Not all power amplifiers are created equal. In yesterday's post, we touched on the idea of a balanced power amplifier, known to us engineering nerds as a bridged amplifier. Here's...
When balanced doesn't matter
In the last couple of posts, I've explained why a balanced small signal from source to preamp matters. A balanced signal can enjoy the benefits of CMR (common mode rejection)...
Small vs. big
In yesterday's post, we discussed how balanced vs. single ended signals work. But what we are going to touch on today is where size matters. Balanced is important to small...
A question of balance
I've been an advocate of balanced audio connections for many, many years. Readers of my blog posts no doubt have heard me wax enthusiastically about the virtues of going with...