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
Secondary Truth
Not everything is straightforward. Take for example brushing your teeth. Despite the minute or two of brushing recommended by dentists, it turns out not more than a few swipes of...
A Late Christmas Present
Just nearing the end of my day yesterday afternoon and our president, Jim Laib walks into my office and says, “we got a problem boss”. Oh boy, just what you...
Over-etched sound
Back in the days when movie moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn ruled Hollywood, cinematographers used soft lenses to enhance the beauty of their starlets. The softening of...
Technocrats and artists
When a design engineer tackles a new product there are a myriad of options available to her. Take for example a preamplifier. Here the designer must choose the type of...
Seeing what we can't see
We can't see a dust mite but we know they exist. And the same is true for sound and electrical waves. We cannot see them with our eyes but, through...
Theory vs. execution
It's nice to build systems and equipment with hand-wave theories of the perfect this and that but turning that hand wave into something of value is where reality sets in....