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
Your Listening Chair Belongs in the Wrong Place
Move it forward three inches. Most people position their listening chair where it feels comfortable in the room—against the back wall, centered between the speakers, maybe with a nice view...
Timbre
Timbre is what lets us tell a violin from a flute, even if they’re playing the same note. I remember the first time I sat down in the old Music...
The couch
Furniture is acoustic treatment. Every object in your listening room affects the sound, whether you planned it that way or not. Your couch absorbs midrange and treble. That glass coffee...
Triangles
Geometry matters more than you think. Your listening setup should form a triangle—left speaker, right speaker, and your seat. If your speakers are ten feet apart, you should sit about...
The 4-foot rule
Your speakers need breathing room. I've walked into countless living rooms where beautiful speakers sit pressed against the wall like furniture. The owners wonder why their system sounds flat and...
Pauses
Music isn’t just made of notes—it’s made of pauses. In live performance, silence sets the stage for impact. The decay of a piano note, the hush before a symphonic climax,...