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 perfect reference disc
I wonder what the perfect reference disc would include. Our first attempt, the Audiophile's Reference, has sold thousands and served her audience well. But the Audiophile's Reference was in service...
Nightmare standards
I had a dream last night of a bizarre world where home audio systems had to conform to a preset standard. The Audio Politburo had been created to write those...
Excitement vs. caution
What would happen if you were presented with a radical new idea? A way to improve the sound of your system, one that would require you to adopt a whole...
Nostalgic audio
At times I find myself nostalgic about some of the past equipment I've owned. My old Audio Research gear and my Tympani Magneplanar system in particular. I don't miss so...
Schools of thought
The polite way of saying that we are fundamentally opposed is to refer to each worldview as a separate school of thought. In so doing, we honor the other's viewpoint...
How long is long enough?
I am often asked to predict how long of an evaluation period it will take to decide if a new product stays or go. If we ignore burn-in (something not...