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
Location recording
Seem like one of the more glamorous jobs in the recording industry might be location recording—going to the live event with the best seat in the house and access to...
Dagwood
How many of us can recall the Blondie cartoon strip with one of my all-time favorites, Dagwood Bumstead, and his enormous over-the-top sandwich? To this day I do my best...
Additive vs. subtractive
When we use our very expensive Audio Precision system to measure distortion levels what we're looking for is additive—harmonics that are generated in response to an input signal. The simple...
Dynamic contrast
Dynamics are defined as the difference between loud and soft. That the greater the dynamic range the greater the magnitude of differences between the loudest and softest. At least that's...
The timeless dimension
When we finish with an Octave release we upload the digital masters to a server owned by Sony that is located in Austria. The upload takes between 20 minutes and...
Dealing with the ordinary
Newspapers and media don't report what's ordinary and every day. That's not news! And neither do the audio reviewers. They want to bring you the latest, greatest, and whatever it...