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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Truth

Paul McGowan

The author of the Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous line was, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." And...

Pillars

Paul McGowan

At the base of The Statue of Liberty, there is a bronze plaque that in part reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,...

Fortune telling

Paul McGowan

Over my 73 years, I have come to discover I am not very good at foretelling the future. So why is it I put so much credence into worrying about...

The power of separates

Paul McGowan

The central appeal of an integrated amplifier is the chance for a designer to maximize the synergy between internal systems: the preamp that best fits the amplifier. Unfortunately, most integrateds...

Cross wired

Paul McGowan

When I hear someone suggest that as humans we're all the same I cringe. Thankfully, we are not all the same. Each of us is wired differently than the others....

The $35 resistor

Paul McGowan

I am well aware people in our HiFi Family think were nuts. And, that's ok. Better nuts than boring. When people ask me if parts of identical value but different...