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 missing element
When I have a live band to record at Octave Records one of the first things I do is stand right in the middle of the tracking room to get a...
When does cool outweigh practical?
On a recent airplane flight I sat behind a fellow who wore one of Apple's new 3D goggles for the entire 3 hour flight. From my perspective it was weird. ...
Setting moods
Ok, I must admit I was a bit shocked to read some of the comments and letters to me about yesterday's post. To be clear, it was an April Fool's...
An amazing innovation
Some innovations and discoveries just happen. Others take time. Lots of time. We've been quietly working in the background on something absolutely unique and awe inspiring. Eau de Vinyl. A fragrance. But not...
Discrete vs. chips
For as long as I have been working in this industry there has been a debate about discrete analog builds versus chips—building amplifier channels using individually packaged transistors, resistors, and...
Careful what you ask for
"No matter what you do in the recording venue it will never sound like you are sitting in that venue with the vocalist and musicians. We should put an end...