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
The elephant
We all know the old saying about elephants and rooms, but sometimes that is the room itself. Sound doesn’t just travel in a straight line from speaker to ear. It...
Foundations
Great bass isn’t about boom—it’s about foundation. Too many systems try to impress with midbass punch while ignoring what lies below. But the real magic happens in the lower octaves,...
Triangles
Speaker placement is geometry, not guesswork. If you want your speakers to disappear and the music to appear in three dimensions, start by forming an equilateral triangle between the listening...
We gotta fix it!
The power coming out of your wall is not the power your HiFi system wants. Most people assume that once electricity reaches their house, it's good to go. But the...
The magic of vinyl
Vinyl records aren’t perfect, but their imperfections are part of the magic. One of the reasons is crosstalk. A phono cartridge, by design, allows a bit of left-channel signal to...
Thanks
Over the past few weeks we’ve taken quite a journey together. We began with the language of sound, exploring how we as audiophiles describe what we hear—tonality, air, ambience, dynamics,...