PS Audio founder and CEO, Paul McGowan, writes a daily blog: short, informative, fun, often controversial, but always interesting. Subjects range from personal stories, how to setup your system, news of the day, streaming, vinyl, tubes, transistors, loudspeakers, holographic imaging and more. Kind of like the Car Talk of audio. Not much is sacred, and there’s rarely a mention of our own products.

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Blame it on video

Paul McGowan

One of the more interesting irritants in the recording and playback of digital audio is the great divide between pro and consumer. The crux of it is this. The pros making...

We're all crazy

Paul McGowan

When an outsider takes a look at our stacks of equipment and big speakers their reaction is often a head shake and a tongue click. "Wow, this is crazy". And...

Aha! moments

Paul McGowan

There's perhaps nothing better than an aha! moment: the lightbulb flicks on, the answer to the problem is clear, the puzzle is solved. The trick with aha! moments is to actually...

Judging an amp by its Watts

Paul McGowan

Most of us would snicker if told the way to choose a power amplifier is by its Wattage. The greater the amp's power output the better it will sound. For those...

Family jewels

Paul McGowan

Gain stages are like the family jewels. They need to be protected. To be specific, there are two types of gain stages: current and voltage. It is the latter type...

Less than amazing

Paul McGowan

On the phone yesterday with a mix engineer that I was preparing tracks for, I found myself feeling like I had jumped through a time machine. We had just finished...