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 floor
Most of us spend a lot of time thinking about the back wall, the front wall, the ceiling. But one of the most underrated parts of the listening space is...
Reflections
We all know how direct sound works—speaker fires, you hear it. But the real challenge in any room comes from reflected sound. Especially the first bounce off the side wall....
Mona Lisa
Want a better stereo image? Put something visual in the middle of the front wall between the speakers. It can be a painting. A piece of art. A diffuser. Even...
Height
Sometimes you’re listening to a track you know like the back of your hand. The vocal is supposed to lock dead center, right between the speakers. But instead, it’s kind...
Sweet spot
You’re in the sweet spot. The vocalist is dead center. Then you lean to the left, and suddenly the singer jumps into the left speaker. Or you sit down with...
Corners
Corners look harmless. A little molding, a houseplant, maybe a lamp. But sonically? They’re landmines. Corners reinforce bass. Every room mode—the low-frequency pressure waves that build up between walls, floor,...