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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A little dab

Paul McGowan

In 2008, authors Karl Johan Åström and Richard M.Murray wrote about feedback: "Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and second...

Card decks

Paul McGowan

When we enter this life we're each dealt a hand of cards. Each hand has a different distribution of good ones and bad ones and it is up to us...

Big vs. small

Paul McGowan

I am struggling to think of a smaller company that's gotten better after being acquired by a bigger one. I cringe at the aftermath of Harmon's purchase of Infinity, and...

Road trip

Paul McGowan

Golden opportunities don't often come our way but, when they do, we should grab them. Life's short enough as it is. One of our HiFi Family members had emailed me...

Mastering

Paul McGowan

After more years than I can count I am still trying to figure out mastering. This might seem kind of odd considering our own in-house mastering engineer, Gus Skinas, is...

The soft effect

Paul McGowan

A very kind HiFi Family member generously sent me a few Sheffield Direct to Discs. These treasures are hard to find and I was extremely grateful to have received them....