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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Tambourines
Reviewer Keith Howard sent me an interesting note a few days ago that really was an eye opener for me when it comes to understanding how loud music actually gets....
Music math
Thanks to reader John McRee for suggesting the title of today's post. Yesterday we learned we need 8 times more power to reproduce speech than we do sine waves -...
Riding the crest
I promised yesterday we'd start to learn what Crest Factor is and how it applies to headroom in an amplifier. While understanding this concept isn't all that important to making...
Measuring the standard
We're moving into a series on power amplifier headroom for a couple of reasons: first I think most people really don't understand just how much power is enough and secondly,...
Headroom
I suppose the term "headroom" must have come about in response to tall people trying to make sure there's enough room for their heads to go through a doorway or...
The ultimate point source
Several of you asked me why I was so interested in a 20+ year old pair of loudspeakers that I would sell everything in the listening room to get it...