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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Wisdom

Paul McGowan

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. Aphorisms aside, I think it's instructive to honor doubt in service of gaining wisdom. When we doubt that parts quality matter,...

Quiet heroes

Paul McGowan

"With a splash of warmth and color of tubes, the M1200's have the kind of dynamics that infuse even the most languid music with a spark of excitement. The Stellar...

Make your own music

Paul McGowan

My friend, Richard Murrison (of Bit Perfect fame), shared with me something rather extraordinary. A way to make your own music using animated characters and artificial intelligence. Go here. It'll...

The Peter Principle

Paul McGowan

In 1969, a Canadian educator, Laurence J. Peter, presented to the world the Peter Principle. People and systems in a hierarchical structure are continually elevated (or upgraded) until they reach...

And the hits just....

Paul McGowan

...keep on coming. In the January issue of the UK's HiFi News, our killer M1200 monoblock combo received another stellar review (pun intended). "The latter track positively erupted, the amplifiers...

Does bi-amping still make sense?

Paul McGowan

Twenty something years ago, horizontal bi-amping made a great deal of sense. One type of amplifier for the woofer sections, another for the top end. It made sense because amplifiers...