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  • PS Audioโ€™s Paul McGowan: a candid interview about a man and his speaker

    Paul McGowan opens up about PS Audioโ€™s evolving speaker plans, his friendship with Seth Godin, and a life shaped by draft dodging, vegetarianism, and a passion for building audio gear he’d proudly use himself.

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  • Measurements can suck

    Recalling his journey from AM radio to Julian Hirsch-era Stereo Review, Tom Gibbs charts how flashy gear and measurements gave way to the deeper truth: great sound comes from system synergy, not specs alone.

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  • I am not an audiophile

    I am not an audiophile, or an expert on music. I donโ€™t like being labelled. But I do love most musical genres. I fell in love with music when I was nine. โ€œThatโ€™s a young age to fall in love for the first time!โ€ I hear some of you saying. It is. But by nine…

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  • Understanding Audio, Episode โ€œWatts that you said?โ€

    Imagine youโ€™re driving down the highway at 110 km/h, when you suddenly find yourself at the wrong end of a radar gun and soon being pursued by a police car signaling you to pull over. The chesty policeman standing by your rolled-down window offers you the typical icebreaker in this sort of situation: โ€œDo you…

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  • Listen now: hereโ€™s how to set up your speakers

    Gerard Rejskind argues nothing impacts your systemโ€™s sound more than speaker placement, offering unconventional tipsโ€”from asymmetry to nearfield setupsโ€”to overcome room flaws and coax the best performance from your gear.

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  • My Audio Revelation

    Iโ€™ve always loved listening to music on a sound system, even going as far back as when all I had access to was my parentsโ€™ outdated, low-fi stereo system. It was in my collegeโ€™s music library, where I worked, that I was introduced to quality sound, although at the time I had no idea what…

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  • Music Unites Us

    Of course, music isnโ€™t the kind of language weโ€™ll use, say, to order food at the drive-thru or book a car appointment at the garage (even for a car tune up, hehe). Music transcends words. It operates on an emotional frequency to make us feel. Even in songs with lyrics, itโ€™s the songโ€™s harmonic and…

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  • Do Terminators Dream of Mechanical-Sounding Audio?

    A T-800 might settle for bad sound, but as this witty essay makes clear, music is meant to stir human emotionโ€”not metallic circuits. Good audio connects us; bad audio shuts us down.

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