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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Pots in a box
In the early 70's Stan (The "S" in PS) and I only made phono preamplifiers. They had no controls, just a turntable input and a set of RCA outputs. Designed...
How to explain the high-end
"The justification for a great music system is the same as for a great instrument: It makes possible a musical experience that cannot be duplicated by lesser means" My friend...
Should we support hoarding?
Yahoo is suing Facebook for violating some of its patents for technologies it both uses and doesn't use. Yahoo waited years to take this action and it wasn't until Facebook...
It's obvious
Ever notice how something is obvious only after someone points it out to you? In our post on Software Jitter I got several emails from folks telling me "that's an...
The death of the album?
Dave Paananen, our director of engineering, asked "Isn't it obvious the need for an album or CD is rapidly becoming unnecessary?" At first I dismissed the thought, so ingrained is...
Software jitter
Just when we thought we had it all figured out along comes a new form of distortion to tackle: software jitter. The culprit here is, unfortunately, a very necessary component...