Paul McGowan writes: Most of us have an idea how our ear works. We have an eardrum, which is a diaphragm or membrane, and sound pressure moves this membrane back and forth stimulating nerves and generating electrical signals the brain can recognize as sound. Our brains act as recorders storing the sounds we hear for […]
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Paul McGowan: Netflix has started making their own content in the same fashion that HBO and the other premium paid channels are. What’s interesting to me is that the big networks who used to own the audiences have fewer and fewer good shows and decreasing audiences while the paid channels have more and more good […]
Paul McGowan writes: There’s increasing evidence that rhymes, poems, meter and cadence in stories were created not because they are beautiful but because they helped us keep the words straight before the advent of written language. It is how our civilization kept important lessons, histories, messages and stories intact without writing anything down. Imagine any […]
Paul McGowan writes: My son Scott bought a really cool watch online for his girlfriend’s birthday. He took it to a watch repair shop to have the band adjusted and got scolded for buying online. “Shame on you”. This admonishment despite the fact the watch repair shop didn’t carry the brand bought and had no […]
Paul McGowan writes: Vacuums suck (sorry, just couldn’t resist the joke)…but it’s not too far from wrong. It’s really the problem behind the classic AB test method: replace one piece of gear with another to form a value judgment. We all do it, but is it as definitive as we might hope? The answer has a […]
Paul McGowan: With all the great power products on the market today it’s easy to forget that we still benefit from the basics – like dedicated power lines. A dedicated power line is simply a separate power circuit and wire dedicated specifically to your audio system. The key point is that nothing else is on […]
Paul McGowan writes: Probably time to cut back on the coffee. But if your jitter problems relate to your digital audio system then there’s hope. Jitter is all about timing. Digital audio depends heavily on an accurate clock. That clock meters out precise intervals, like a musical metronome, and the quality of your music depends […]
Paul McGowan ….. Really? I hear that a lot and I am sure it’s true for some of us. But my sense is most of us like the gear, the kit, just as much as we like the music. When I attend a consumer audio show I see endless numbers of people wandering from room […]
Paul McGowan writes: In the process of answering the many comments I receive (which are much appreciated) one was made that really struck home. Here is the comment from frequent contributor Mark Fisher that was made after I wrote “it’s amazing what it has done for the system.” “This seems to happen every time […]