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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Audio and rabbits
Audio problems are like rabbits—solve one, and two more pop up. A few days ago, we were going on about balanced interconnects and why we don't need balanced speaker cables:...
The neutral myth
We audiophiles love to chase neutrality. We want our systems to be a perfect window into the recording, free of colorations or biases. But here’s the thing: true neutrality doesn’t...
Musical chairs
We all know that pulling the speakers away from the front wall improves imaging. But not everyone has the space—or the domestic negotiation skills—to do it. If your speakers must...
Getting lost
It’s easy to get lost chasing specs, topologies, and cable types. Happens to the best of us, right? Balanced or single-ended. Differential or ground-referenced. Small signal, big signal. It’s enough...
Equal amplifiers
Not all power amplifiers are created equal. In yesterday's post, we touched on the idea of a balanced power amplifier, known to us engineering nerds as a bridged amplifier. Here's...
When balanced doesn't matter
In the last couple of posts, I've explained why a balanced small signal from source to preamp matters. A balanced signal can enjoy the benefits of CMR (common mode rejection)...