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
Bascom King
It is with a heavy heart and great sadness I have to report the passing of one of the great pioneers and innovators in audio. Bascom King. Bascom passed away...
Handcrafted
We can excuse some minor irregularities in a piece of homemade furniture by accepting the idea the work was handcrafted—unique and acceptable in its lack of perfection. On the other...
The power of monitors
Not until we got deeply immersed in the building of a state-of-the-art recording label, Octave Records did it occur to us just how important the recording/mixing monitors are to the...
Swimming upstream
There are a number of old sayings about the futility of swimming upstream or battling rising tides. It's better to work with something than fight against it. Like one's room....
Who's to say?
I remember the first time a worried audiophile came to me for help. It was many years ago at a consumer tradeshow. The fellow—let's just call him Ed—was concerned because...
False cues
REL Speakers make some of the best subwoofers in the world. Owner and chief bass'ifier, John Hunter, is nothing short of a magician when it comes to setting up a...