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
Origins
Ever wonder why Mexicans love beer and their music often features tubas and brass instruments playing what sounds like polka music? An interesting question since the country we now know as...
What if?
Ever daydream about what ifs? What if I had this or that? The perfect streamer? Drop dead gorgeous loudspeakers? A DAC that made me swoon? Mine would include the perfect...
Emotions meter
How cool would that be? A metering system that connected with the goosebumps on our arm or the tears of joy forming in our eyes. I was at the studio...
Step by step
I know I've shared the story of how years ago we (and others) discovered the bypass cap—that small film capacitor placed in parallel with a big electrolytic. If you look inside...
Moving forward
I find myself happiest with forward movement. I'm ok on idle, but not for long. And I really don't like reverse. Perhaps this makes me a bit volatile because I...
Are we shrinking?
I've been involved in the high-end for more than 50 years. That's longer than a number of our HiFi Family members have been alive. And always, during that half century,...