For those of you who may not be aware, Paul McGowan of PS Audio publishes a free daily subscription blog called Paul's Posts. No, this is not an advertisement nor a means to promote his products. In fact, he rarely even mentions PS Audio in his daily blog.
He writes about all things audio in a very concise, easy to understand and thought provoking style.
Thought some of you folks might also find his blog as worthwhile as I do.
Here is an example with today's blog,
"Getting a piece of it
I’ve written before that in the long run I find that we are very far away from reproducing live sound in our homes. We stress over cleaning and polishing the fine details of our systems when, in reality, they are very far away from live sound reproduced in our home. We can fool our senses by closing our eyes and imagining we’re in a concert hall but we always know we are not.
I believe that the biggest hurdles to achieving live sound in our homes are to be found not in digital vs. analog recording and playback but in the transducers themselves: the microphones and loudspeakers. These are archaic contraptions that will hold us back from reaching audio nirvana for as long as we insist on using them. Not that I have anything better to offer.
But can we get a piece of it right? Is it possible to reproduce some of the live qualities of music in our homes? I think the answer is yes and I would like to touch on the qualities of some of what we have right over the next few days.
My purpose in writing this isn’t to be a naysayer but rather to poke the box as my friend Seth is fond of saying. Poking the box means to me that I bring to light that which some of us may find uncomfortable. That which challenges our cherished beliefs.
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Topic - Paul's Posts - JayG 07:43:27 06/30/12 (23)
- I was poking the box this morning.... - Justlisten2 18:08:21 07/01/12 (0)
- We have to get away from mechanical transducers. When we are able to directly stimulate the auditory nerve, - cfb 06:17:13 07/01/12 (10)
- Transducers are part of the reproduction chain. - soulfood 08:23:57 07/01/12 (2)
- I don't think it's laughable. It is only a question of time and technology; do you really think that say 300 - cfb 10:57:09 07/01/12 (1)
- If you're trying to one up me, I concede. -nt - soulfood 12:40:59 07/01/12 (0)
- Not that way. - Kal Rubinson 07:44:17 07/01/12 (2)
- What about plasma microphones or recording the nerve impulses from a human ear at some point in the future? - cfb 11:00:27 07/01/12 (1)
- A transducer is unavoidable. - Kal Rubinson 15:08:44 07/01/12 (0)
- RE: We have to get away - genungo 07:25:54 07/01/12 (0)
- RE: We have to get away from mechanical transducers. When we are able to directly stimulate the auditory nerve, - tomservo 07:15:17 07/01/12 (2)
- That's just the point, we must advance beyond the current electromechanical loudspeaker technologies. - cfb 11:05:59 07/01/12 (1)
- RE: That's just the point, we must advance beyond the current electromechanical loudspeaker technologies. - tomservo 12:56:01 07/01/12 (0)
- RE: Paul's Posts - c1ferrari 20:36:09 06/30/12 (0)
- Concert speakers - Sumflow 19:26:08 06/30/12 (0)
- RE: Paul's Posts - mcguirek 16:57:02 06/30/12 (0)
- RE: Paul's Posts - Bill the K 10:23:47 06/30/12 (1)
- "...Critics Forum where right now there is a severe dearth of posters." LOL -nt - soulfood 04:19:26 07/01/12 (0)
- RE: Paul's Posts - tomservo 09:17:53 06/30/12 (5)
- RE: Paul's Posts - Kloss 07:31:12 07/01/12 (0)
- RE: Paul's Posts - DrChaos 18:03:26 06/30/12 (0)
- RE: Paul's Posts - c1ferrari 12:06:54 06/30/12 (2)
- RE: Paul's Posts - DrChaos 18:05:31 06/30/12 (1)
- RE: Paul's Posts - c1ferrari 21:08:14 06/30/12 (0)