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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Tubes vs. transistors
Now there's a hot subject for you, one that's been debated for as many years as the two have coexisted in the world of high-end audio. First let me suggest...
When is less more?
Good friend Bill Low, CEO of Audioquest Cables, sent me a note answering the question about purity and perfection in audio. "The answer seems obvious ... Do No Harm ......
The myth of the asynchronous DAC
Synchronous and asynchronous are two buzz words manufacturers realize gets people's attention. We may not understand what they mean but we've figured out asynchronous is better than being synchronous. So...
The personality of equipment
Have you ever noticed that many dogs resemble their owners? I think the same is true for equipment and the personality of the designs. In our hand-crafted industry of the...
How do you describe truffle fries?
The language an artist uses to describe her work is by necessity vague and intentionally non-specific. How else could she describe the feeling of the work? The language a programmer...
In the garden of Eden
In the late 1960's the way music was played over the airwaves was going through a major shift, much like it is today. For many years only songs of less...