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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Paul's Posts
Owning music
"I don't want to own music anymore". What an interesting turn of events in this era of streaming. When I started in this field, fifty years ago, our collection of...
Feeling threatened
In one of my videos, which you can watch here, I take folks on a tour of the new Octave studio's control room. Octave Studios and Octave Records are passion projects...
Power supply phasing
How important is the AC phase to your connected equipment? And while we're on the subject, what about the actual audio signal itself? Swap red and black on your speaker...
Beer budgets
One of my more controversial YouTube videos seems to be one where a customer reached out and asked the proverbial question: "If I have champagne tastes but only a budget...
Simple
You don't want to eat raw potatoes. We cook potatoes for a couple of reasons: to eliminate the toxin solanine that causes nausea and headaches and to break down the...
Megan Burtt
How cool is it when an Octave Artist makes it to the big time? Megan Burt recorded one of our more popular albums on Octave, Shelter. It's a wonderful album...