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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What's the point?

Paul McGowan

Do we need a point? Sometimes we do things like simply listen and enjoy the music. There's no point to it other than the sheer enjoyment of it. And, maybe...

In or out of house?

Paul McGowan

The Aspen loudspeakers are making quite a name for themselves. From sharing the stage with Magico, B and W, and Magnepan in The Absolute Sound's Greatest Bargain's in Loudspeakers, to gracing the covers of...

Dry vs. wet

Paul McGowan

What makes a recording sound dry or wet? Musician, Tony Furtado's Raleigh and Spencer, for example, is quite "wet". Have a listen to the opening of the piece where the drums...

Origins

Paul McGowan

Ever wonder why Mexicans love beer and their music often features tubas and brass instruments playing what sounds like polka music? An interesting question since the country we now know as...

What if?

Paul McGowan

Ever daydream about what ifs? What if I had this or that? The perfect streamer? Drop dead gorgeous loudspeakers? A DAC that made me swoon? Mine would include the perfect...

Emotions meter

Paul McGowan

How cool would that be? A metering system that connected with the goosebumps on our arm or the tears of joy forming in our eyes. I was at the studio...