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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Paul's Posts
The sound of air
Air is the space above, around, and inside the music. When we talk about “air,” we mean the highest treble frequencies that give sound openness and delicacy. A system with...
Tonality and truth
Every recording has a tonal balance, and every system shifts it. When we audiophiles talk about tonality, we’re pointing to the overall balance of bass, midrange, and treble in a...
The language of sound
Words are a poor substitute for what we hear. Trying to capture sound in language is like painting a sunset with two colors. No matter how carefully chosen, words fall...
The magic trick
A great system should vanish. The first time I heard a properly set-up high-end system, I was stunned not by how it sounded but by what was missing. The speakers...
AI and audio
There's a lot of fear and anxiety around artificial intelligence. I see it every day, and it reminds me of our constant fears of change: how we freaked out about...
Never ending
System setup is never truly finished. I’ve lost count of the times I thought I had a room “perfect,” only to discover something new weeks or months later. A small...