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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FR30s go live

Paul McGowan

Tomorrow, Friday the 25th, marks the world's public premiere of the FR30 loudspeaker. If you're planning on attending the Montreal High End show at the Hotel Bonaventure, you can drop...

Measuring a Power Plant

Paul McGowan

As of late, we've gotten a lot of folks wondering about how Power Plants measure and if they match their specifications. Specifically, the P12 Power Plant. It's always interesting to...

HiFi snobs

Paul McGowan

I really dislike labels as they apply to people. I have spent much of my adult life working hard at removing them from my lexicon. Labels encourage us to place...

The transparency paradox

Paul McGowan

The dictionary defines the word paradox as a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. Such...

Notes or numbers?

Paul McGowan

Are we as audiophiles more interested in musical notes or measurement numbers? The quick answer is, of course, musical notes. Yet I doubt few would disagree with the need to...

Savoring

Paul McGowan

We savor the moment, the meal, the day. Yet, how often do we savor the music? Last night, Terri, me, and Jessica (Octave's director) got our first listen to an...