Trusting skill
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio I wonder why it seems so hard for some people to trust skill. If a designer can carve out a result we hope for without benefit of scientific rigor or engineering norms, is it…
The learning funnel
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio My post about mavens got me to thinking about how our learning curve funnels from the big to the small. We start with a big idea or project and over time narrow down to the nitty-gritty….
Micro or Macro Maven?
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio I am a wholesale swap kind of guy. If something isn’t performing the way I want I’d sooner move it along and get another. Out with the old and in with the new! But…
Remembering the good stuff
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Our memories are kind to what actually happened in the past. For whatever reason, we tend to ignore the pain and detritus of days gone by in favor of fondness and longing to return…
St Kitts & Nevis: Prime Minister Harris’ next Press Conference is Tuesday (9)
Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris is pleased to once more update citizens and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis on matters of national interest. The Honourable Prime Minister’s monthly press conference will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9th, 2019,…
Tolerating extremes
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio One of the more fascinating speakers I have heard is the MBL Radialstrahler, an expensive full range loudspeaker that pushes air with pulsating “balloons” (flexible metallic spheres) driven by the same voice coils we normally associate…
All or nothing
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio A while back I posted a video on holographic imaging and managed to ruffle a few feathers. Since my words seem to routinely tousle feathers it is perhaps unclear why I would bring this trifle to…
Ignorance and confidence
From Paul McGowan When we set our sights far in the future the world looks nice and rosy. Imagine that new pair of speakers gracing your living room, the new amplifier, the rebuilt room. According to Mark Twain imagining the…
Exposing cheese to round-the-clock hip hop music could give it more flavor, according to Swiss researchers
By Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani, Reuters From Business Insider Swiss researchers exposed wheels of Emmental cheese to round-the-clock music in order to determine its impact on aroma and flavor. Nine wheels of cheese were placed in separate wooden crates…
Demanding proof
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio There are plenty of loud voices in audio. Is it incumbent on us to answer them? What is it in our nature that when we’re faced with a proposition we don’t agree with we revert…