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
Puzzle pieces
Every bit of new information we receive can be viewed as a puzzle piece. Put enough of the puzzle pieces together and suddenly you have a picture of the whole....
Point of measurement
There's typically a bit of confusion when it comes to speaker setup, in particular, around how far out into the room is best for soundstage and depth. Generally, we'd like...
Vinyl's here
It's been a long slog getting here but, at Octave, we're finally launching vinyl. I am over the top excited. As some of you may know, there are only a...
Measure once, cut twice
Sorry for the opening humor. Measurements are essential. Without them, we could never design products. Especially speakers with their complex crossover and cabinet interactions. Sometimes you have to do what...
More mud
A few days ago I wrote a blog post about impedance. It seems to have stirred more mud than cleared the waters. Might as well go for broke. This post...
It's all in the translation
For most people, amplification of the musical signal means just that. Taking the original signal as generated by the source and making that signal bigger. Only, that's not what happens....