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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Piano keys

Paul McGowan

"Great distortions annoy; lesser distortions fatigue." Great quote from one of our readers and it's quite appropriate as we start looking at Listener Fatigue. I didn't want to just examine...

Bipoles

Paul McGowan

Bipole loudspeakers have sound coming out the front and the rear, just like a dipole. They are bi-directional at higher frequencies, unlike the sealed box I described earlier, which we...

Fatigue

Paul McGowan

The term "listener fatigue" is something we're all familiar with and something none of us want. What is listener fatigue, why does it occur and what is it we can...

Almost kicking back

Paul McGowan

We should be at the point in our subwoofer quest to kick back and enjoy our new found extra octave or two of bass - and what a great thing...

Finishing touches

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post we covered with good detail the steps to achieving low bass with your subwoofers. By keeping the frequency lower than you need to match your main speakers...

Keeping it low

Paul McGowan

In my experience getting the very low frequencies to integrate and propagate through the room is the biggest challenge we have placing a subwoofer in the room. That's why in...