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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It’s Obvious

Paul McGowan

It’s funny how obvious something is once you figure it out. Networking issues are like that for me. A blur of numbers and meaningless data points confuse and bewilder me...

The Gas Pops

Paul McGowan

Clay Rose, writer and lead singer of the Gasoline Lollipops is a star. No, really. What an amazing performer. He just blows me away. Listening to the first tracks from...

Going Over Your Head

Paul McGowan

It makes me feel sad when I read that something in our technologically complex world of high-end audio has gone over someone’s head. That they cannot grasp the concept as...

Gravity Doesn’t Care

Paul McGowan

Gravity doesn’t care if you believe in it or not. You’re not going to float free into space. You can jump up and down and claim it’s a conspiracy to...

How did we get to 192?

Paul McGowan

When playing high-resolution PCM files the defacto industry standard seems to be 192kHz, 24 bit. Right? I mean, given a choice between the next candidate, 176.4kHz, we automatically choose 192kHz....

Ratchet Of Change

Paul McGowan

While it is true change can happen with the flip of a switch it is more likely to occur in small ratcheted increments. Big events like the time years ago...