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
Toe in and out
Ask a room full of audiophiles how much toe-in to use, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Some people like their speakers pointed right at them. Others prefer them...
It's not what you think
Ask most people why they need a subwoofer and you’ll hear the same answer: to get deeper bass. But that’s not really why subwoofers matter—at least not in a properly...
Disappearing act
It’s the moment we all chase. You cue up the music, settle into your chair, and suddenly… the speakers are gone. Not turned off, not quiet—just gone. What’s left is...
The magical key
In the golden age of the 1970s, the stereo receiver was the gateway. Walk into any department store and you’d see them lined up behind glass: Marantz, Pioneer, Sansui. Gleaming...
Getting into the weeds
In yesterday's post, we discussed the differences in transistor types: BJTs and FETs. Today I thought we'd dig a little deeper. On paper, a JFET is just another transistor, but...
Choosing the right sauce
To most people, a transistor is just a black plastic thing with three legs. To an engineer working on a high-end audio system's architecture, it can mean the difference between...