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
In the wrong place
Don't you love it when the speakers vanish? Not literally, of course—but sonically. You close your eyes, and there’s no box, no cabinet, no driver—just a voice hanging in the...
Format wars
For years, we were locked into format wars. CD vs. SACD. DVD-Audio vs. Blu-ray. MP3 vs. FLAC. Physical vs. digital. I’ve lived through all of it, and yes—those formats do...
The myth
Yesterday's post got me remembering there’s a myth out there that somehow bits from a CD or SACD are purer than bits from a stream. That if it came from...
From vinyl to polycarbonate
I still remember the first time I held a CD in my hands. It was 1983, and the promise was huge—no more surface noise, no stylus to wear out grooves,...
Doh!
As long as I am reminiscing about Quad electrostatics, I still remember my first experience with a subwoofer and another electrostat I owned. The sub was an M&K, one of...
Best of both worlds
The first time I heard a pair of Quad electrostatics, everything I thought I knew about loudspeakers went out the window. They didn’t sound like speakers at all. No boxiness,...