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
Lo-Fi, Mid-Fi, Hi-Fi
In a recent review of the Octave Record's release of The Art Of Hi Fi, Soundstage by Ken Kessler, he scratched his head as to why we never seem to...
Negative progress
As I have mentioned to you in the past, I am a fan of well done SPAM, especially the kind that clearly uses some form of AI. So what's the...
When 2+2=6
Further to my earlier post about the impossible task of setting up your speakers to disappear is the oddity of smaller boxes making bigger sounds. We're rarely surprised when a...
The impossible task
I am always delighted at the quizzical look I get on a newcomer's face when I attempt to explain the goal of making the speakers disappear. It seems so counterintuitive and...
Proper order
I have noticed that when demonstrating a new piece of equipment it is much more effective to first play the standard, what folks are used to hearing, then the new...
The need for synergy
Our need for synergistic pairings of equipment, cables, and speakers is a failing. A necessary failing but, a failing none the less. I hope we can all agree that not...