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
Slap and Ship
I mentioned yesterday that preconceived notions and old biases die hard - and sometimes stay with us forever. It's something we're never going to fix as it is simply human...
Cherished beliefs
One of the notions alive and well with many in the high-end community is the idea that a class D power amplifier will cause listener fatigue over time; and that...
We discover digital isn't all bad
The dawn of the CD era began in the early 1980's and at that time there were initially only two CD players mass marketed: Sony and Phillips made both and...
The 70's crusades
Yesterday I gave an example of how the addition of two one cent resistors turned a fatiguing solid state preamp into a warm tube-like device. Two resistors! That's not much...
Back when vinyl ruled
I remember the first time I became aware of what we call Listener Fatigue. It was many years ago when there was only turntables, vinyl and most people listened to...
Conflating
I learned a new word from one of my readers this morning: conflate. It means confusing two messages together and apparently that's what I did yesterday in my post; so...