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
Disappearing act
It’s the moment we all chase. You cue up the music, settle into your chair, and suddenly… the speakers are gone. Not turned off, not quiet—just gone. What’s left is...
The magical key
In the golden age of the 1970s, the stereo receiver was the gateway. Walk into any department store and you’d see them lined up behind glass: Marantz, Pioneer, Sansui. Gleaming...
Getting into the weeds
In yesterday's post, we discussed the differences in transistor types: BJTs and FETs. Today I thought we'd dig a little deeper. On paper, a JFET is just another transistor, but...
Choosing the right sauce
To most people, a transistor is just a black plastic thing with three legs. To an engineer working on a high-end audio system's architecture, it can mean the difference between...
Phase
It’s amazing how good we are at locating sound. Without even thinking about it, we can close our eyes and tell where someone’s talking from across a room. We know...
Taking the leap
There’s something comforting about a system you know, and it’s easy to say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And that’s not bad advice—there’s real value in living with...