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
Technocrats and artists
When a design engineer tackles a new product there are a myriad of options available to her. Take for example a preamplifier. Here the designer must choose the type of...
Seeing what we can't see
We can't see a dust mite but we know they exist. And the same is true for sound and electrical waves. We cannot see them with our eyes but, through...
Theory vs. execution
It's nice to build systems and equipment with hand-wave theories of the perfect this and that but turning that hand wave into something of value is where reality sets in....
Analytical vs. resolving
The terms we use in high-end audio are often confusing. When I listen to a pair of studio monitors like the ATCs I find them analytical, meaning they are cold,...
The icing on the cake
Look at the frequency response curve of any loudspeaker and you'll immediately see it is not flat. Not even close. Deviations in loudness at specific frequencies are denoted in terms...
The special person
Just because someone hears a high-end audio system—marveling at how lifelike and far from what they listen to it is—rarely does it equate to them running down to the store...