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
Hard to believe
This morning marks the opening of the Chicago audio show known as Axpona. Now, that's probably not news to many of you, but what I am about to unfold just...
Planars and ribbons
In my YouTube videos, I’ve been guilty of using "planar" and "ribbon" interchangeably at times. Oops. They are, in fact, very different creatures. A planar magnetic driver, like the kind...
Colors
Sound has color, but not in the way a painter might think. When we talk about the "color" of sound, we’re really talking about its harmonic character. Some sounds are...
First Watt
The first watt is the most important watt. Most of our listening happens at just a few watts of power, yet we obsess over high-powered amplifiers, thinking more watts mean...
You might have missed it
Something extraordinary just happened. Back in the 1950s, when computers filled entire rooms and had less brainpower than a modern toaster, Alan Turing asked a provocative question: Can machines think?...
Music without borders
Music doesn’t recognize borders. Neither should we. As audiophiles, we’re part of a global community bound not by geography but by a shared passion—to get closer to the music, to...