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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Jumping up and down

Paul McGowan

The humidity levels during winter months in Colorado are really low. Low enough that every time I slide my butt off the listening room seat I get a charge of...

Riding level

Paul McGowan

In the latest edition of Copper Magazine, Grammy-winning recording engineers, Immersive Audio's Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz offer a fascinating insight into the art of making natural sounding recordings. Ulrike...

Crafting with intent

Paul McGowan

In a recent post, I wrote about the power of a strong point of view—knowing where you want to go then working hard to get there. Another way to say...

Opinions and experts

Paul McGowan

In Stereophile Magazine's opening section, As we see it, author Jim Austin has a little title at the top of the page that says, "There are as many opinions as...

Aspen update

Paul McGowan

The Aspen FR30s in Music Room 2 have so enamored me (and everyone that has had the chance to listen) that I've taken Octave Record's new mixing console out of...

Pickup and playback

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post, I riffed on the difference between the broad strokes taken by recording engineers and the fine polishing we as audiophiles expend to enjoy all that the recording...