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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The price of scarcity
When something desirable is scarce its value increases. It's the old supply and demand theory we learned about in school. If more people want something than there is an available...
Ignoring the obvious
At first glance, it is not clear to us why an oversized power supply sounds better, or one cable sonically outperforms another. This is because not everything is obvious. It...
Very different vs. right or wrong
Octave Recording artist and trumpeter extraordinaire, Gabriel Mervine, notes near the end of this video that "vinyl sounds different. Very different." In fact, identical master recordings sound very different depending...
Truth
The author of the Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous line was, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." And...
Pillars
At the base of The Statue of Liberty, there is a bronze plaque that in part reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,...
Fortune telling
Over my 73 years, I have come to discover I am not very good at foretelling the future. So why is it I put so much credence into worrying about...