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
Ideas that change everything
If you're running your DAC straight into a power amplifier, and you're not using it at full volume, you're not hearing all it can do. Let’s revisit the problem we've...
Radical architecture
Yesterday, I told you about Chris Brunhaver's suggestion to replace the digital volume control in our new DAC, the PMG Signature 512, with an analog stepped attenuator at its output. ...
Off the cuff
Sometimes big things start with a throwaway line. We were deep in development on our upcoming reference DAC, the PMG Signature 512, working out the particulars every new technology demands:...
Audio and rabbits
Audio problems are like rabbits—solve one, and two more pop up. A few days ago, we were going on about balanced interconnects and why we don't need balanced speaker cables:...
The neutral myth
We audiophiles love to chase neutrality. We want our systems to be a perfect window into the recording, free of colorations or biases. But here’s the thing: true neutrality doesn’t...
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...