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
Rituals
There are plenty of audiophile rituals. Though they might seem quirky or odd to the great unwashed they are part of what defines us as purveyors of the art. Take...
A real breakthrough
To be honest, I have been working on a secret project for more than a decade and wanted to use this opportunity to tell the world—shout it out to the...
Marrying components
When we're building a system it can often feel like a marriage. We want our components to get along with each other but we also want to make sure their...
Finding your passion
Passion is a feeling of intense enthusiasm for something (or someone). Finding it isn't always easy but, when you do, it's great to hone in on the elements that really...
Recording vs. reproducing
As Octave Records grows it's becoming more evident to me the difference between recording and reproducing. On the former, we're often using heavy hands to capture as best we can...
The problem with evaluations
What do you call the lowest-performing student graduating medical school? A doctor. In any field, the range from good to great is all over the map. Graduation degrees, specifications, and...