Text and photos by Juan C. Ayllon
He couldn’t have summed it up better.
“What we hope for in any piece of hi-fi equipment is sonic transparency. We get there by practicing the Hippocratic oath, ‘First, do no harm’,” Paul McGowan, CEO of Boulder, Colorado-based PS Audio, writes Elaborating, he asserts that the manufacturers of high fidelity audio equipment should strive to “...leave as small a musically agreeable footprint as possible—to do no harm, and what little impact we have should be toe-tapping good.” (McGowan) Over the course of the last six months, I have concluded that Mr. McGowan has achieved this objective with his $6,000 reference level PS Audio BHK Signature Preamplifier, which is the most transparent active preamplifier I have employed in my listening space.
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Text and Photos by Juan C. Ayllon
Last night on the eve of our wedding anniversary, my wife and I were enjoying the romantic movie, Nights in Rodanthe (2008), when it happened.
A harried Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane) platters a record and lowers the stylus on a turntable at the coastal North Carolina Inn she’s watching for a friend. The warm, gentle whir of a needle tracking along a polyvinyl chloride groove, a few pops, and the music begins. She breaks into dance as amused hotel guest, Paul Flanner (Richard Gere), looks on. |
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