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
Choosing your tradeoffs
In high-end audio as in engineering, it's all a matter of managing tradeoffs. There are no perfect solutions. I think when evaluating acceptable tradeoffs one must make a shortlist of...
Musicality
We ultimately judge the performance of our system but how closely it brings us to music. Real music. So, if in 1981 we had systems that brought us close to...
Changing tubes
In my many videos and blog posts about changing tired vacuum tubes, I am continually surprised at the variety of answers. They range from heck yeah to hell no; from...
The price of skill
I have always been fascinated by the skill required to make good bread. With but only four ingredients (water, flour, salt, and leaven) hundreds of different bread types can be...
Something different
I have been writing a daily blog post, Paul's Post, since May of 2011. By my calculation, that's ten years. In those ten years, I haven't missed a day of...
Breaking the chain
We work so hard to build a perfect audio equipment chain. It pains us to think about breaking that chain. I am often asked about the best means of interconnecting...