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
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...
Phase
It’s amazing how good we are at locating sound. Without even thinking about it, we can close our eyes and tell where someone’s talking from across a room. We know...
Taking the leap
There’s something comforting about a system you know, and it’s easy to say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And that’s not bad advice—there’s real value in living with...
Working together
We’ve all been tempted by numbers. Lower noise, higher damping factor, vanishingly low distortion. It’s easy to assume that if each piece of gear performs well on its own, the...
Headroom
You swap in a new DAC or preamp and it immediately sounds better. Clearer, more dynamic. Then you realize: it’s louder. And louder almost always sounds better. That’s where gain...
Direct connect
You’ve probably heard the term “direct-coupled” in descriptions of preamps or amps—especially ours at PS Audio, which are almost all directly coupled, input to output. So what does “direct-coupled” actually...