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 transparency paradox
The dictionary defines the word paradox as a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. Such...
Notes or numbers?
Are we as audiophiles more interested in musical notes or measurement numbers? The quick answer is, of course, musical notes. Yet I doubt few would disagree with the need to...
Savoring
We savor the moment, the meal, the day. Yet, how often do we savor the music? Last night, Terri, me, and Jessica (Octave's director) got our first listen to an...
Ground point
I am often asked to explain ground. No, not dirt, but electrical ground. Counter to what many people might imagine—that ground has something to do with Earth—ground is defined as...
Emotional transports
If music is an emotional transport that speaks differently to each and every one of us, how can we possibly erect standards? It seems as big a challenge as setting...
Lunch with Chris
PS Audio's senior loudspeaker designer, Chris Brunhaver, is one of the most knowledgeable people I have ever known. His mastery with respect to loudspeakers, acoustics, and design is, in my...