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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Why DSD Isn’t Everywhere

Paul McGowan

As diehard advocates of DSD as the ultimate capture technology, we are in the infinitesimal minority. We find ourselves here on the wild frontier for one reason and one reason...

Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Paul McGowan

When we’re chasing down audio gremlins like hum or jitter it’s always helpful to know what’s actually happening. Take hum for example. We might suspect a nasty buzz is caused by something...

Checkboxes

Paul McGowan

Low distortion? Check. DC to light frequency response? Check. Noise low enough that only the dead can hear it? Check. Even after all the checkboxes have been filled out and...

Ramifications

Paul McGowan

Ain’t it the truth? Everything we do has its consequences or, as the headline of today’s post suggests, ramifications. When we transfer digital audio out of a computer there are...

The Outer Edge

Paul McGowan

It’s unlikely you’ll ever read in the local newspaper about your neighbor cutting their grass. It’s not news. News happens when an event we have some interest in moves far...

Grab One Before It’s Too Late

Paul McGowan

In case you haven’t heard, we produced a limited edition double vinyl album of Zuill Bailey’s brilliant work, the Bach Cello Suites. This work represents a lifetime achievement for the...