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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Stereo or mono reflections

Paul McGowan

My friend, Keith Howard, wrote me a wonderfully insightful note that I will share with you. "I find it helpful to think of reflections as mono or stereo, in the...

Silly Putty

Paul McGowan

It's tempting to believe that "reality" is fixed. That what happens to us is just the way it is. I have a very different view. To me, reality is a...

Inside an FR30

Paul McGowan

PS Audio's reference loudspeaker, the FR30, has replaced the venerable IRSV. That was a bitter sweet pill for me. For as long as I have been in the field of...

Do you care?

Paul McGowan

....If the reverb on a recording is real or artificial if it sounds right? ....If the soundstage is not true to the room but it is to your ears? ....If...

Long chain short chain

Paul McGowan

Common sense would suggest that the longer the signal chain the worse it will sound. In other words, a short chain will always outperform a long one. But is that...

Directional

Paul McGowan

When it comes to directionality I find myself a bit lost. Let's take for example an AC power cable. Directionality is easy because each of the two connectors is different....