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

Is Higher Better?

Paul McGowan

Working with DSD and PCM has been a real learning experience. The two formats sound different from each other though it is unclear why. Is it the analog to digital...

Walking On Water

Paul McGowan

A magician can easily walk on water. All one needs is a few inches of the wet stuff and some Plexiglas shoe-lifts. Amazing. Magical. Knowing how the trick is performed...

Here We Are

Paul McGowan

Happy New Year. *Thanks to reader Rob Boss for the cartoon

Poetry

Paul McGowan

My favorite Fair Trade coffee describes itself as having "smooth earthy notes". The coffee I thought I would like, but do not, describes itself as "sweet and rich with floral...

Perspectives

Paul McGowan

Perspectives color our view on reality. It’s how two-dimensional drawings are perceived in three dimensions. We see what we want to see in an effort to better understand our world....

Getting near the end

Paul McGowan

As we approach the end of 2020 we likely all have mixed feelings about this crazy year. I won't dwell on the obvious bits of 2020 we'd all like to...