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
Honest music
I was asked the other day how it is we think Octave Records is going to produce music with a wide appeal. How do we select musicians and performers that...
What price effortlesness?
An often overlooked aspect of music reproduction is effortlessness. One of the first qualities of what listeners to the IRSV notice is how relaxed and effortless the sound even on...
Location recording
Seem like one of the more glamorous jobs in the recording industry might be location recording—going to the live event with the best seat in the house and access to...
Dagwood
How many of us can recall the Blondie cartoon strip with one of my all-time favorites, Dagwood Bumstead, and his enormous over-the-top sandwich? To this day I do my best...
Additive vs. subtractive
When we use our very expensive Audio Precision system to measure distortion levels what we're looking for is additive—harmonics that are generated in response to an input signal. The simple...
Dynamic contrast
Dynamics are defined as the difference between loud and soft. That the greater the dynamic range the greater the magnitude of differences between the loudest and softest. At least that's...