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 cable myth
Cables don’t add. They only take away. That’s the big myth we audiophiles often wrestle with—this idea that a cable has a sonic personality, a character it imparts onto the...
Sometimes…
…you just have to skirt the rules and step up to the plate (and I'll get to the meat of that comment in a moment), but what inspired this post...
Making sense
Some things in high-end audio don’t make sense—until they do. Or don't. Take burn-in. You’ve heard the arguments. Some folks insist it’s snake oil, others swear by it. Even after...
Ideas that change everything
If you're running your DAC straight into a power amplifier, and you're not using it at full volume, you're not hearing all it can do. Let’s revisit the problem we've...
Radical architecture
Yesterday, I told you about Chris Brunhaver's suggestion to replace the digital volume control in our new DAC, the PMG Signature 512, with an analog stepped attenuator at its output. ...
Off the cuff
Sometimes big things start with a throwaway line. We were deep in development on our upcoming reference DAC, the PMG Signature 512, working out the particulars every new technology demands:...