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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Parallel universes

Paul McGowan

Now that we know where AC line noise is coming from and that our homes are vulnerable to all the generators of noise, what to do about it? Our options...

Standing naked

Paul McGowan

Yesterday we started our series on Harvesters and how they came into existence: first as an idea and a challenge, second as a solution. I've put together a short little...

Harvesting

Paul McGowan

Noise Harvesters were launched some years ago and were very popular amongst the high-end crowd. Many are still used today and we get continual requests to bring the product back...

Putting it all together

Paul McGowan

I think we've probably spent enough time on amps for a little while - we can always return - so I'd like to sum up some of our findings and...

Taking out the garbage

Paul McGowan

The last thing you want to do to a power amplifier is put something with impedance between it and the loudspeaker. It's one of the reasons we spend so much...

Fooling our ears and eyes

Paul McGowan

Yesterday we mentioned that DSD and Class D operating systems were similar in that each can be played directly into the loudspeaker without conversion; unlike digital audio which cannot. Both...