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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Take our breath away

Paul McGowan

It doesn't happen often but when it does it makes everything worthwhile. Losing your breath. Sometimes my connection to the music is so intimate, personal, emotional, that I stop breathing...

Temporary Circumstances

Paul McGowan

Boy, talk about aptly named. Octave Record's latest release, Temporary Circumstances, is more than half gone. We just launched it yesterday. This is one hell of a great recording and...

Human engineering

Paul McGowan

If you were to have a choice in audio product design engineers would their temperaments be emotionally invested or analytically detached? It's an interesting question because I imagine the final...

Audio pedigree

Paul McGowan

Pedigrees authenticate bloodline lineage. They're important for dogs, royals, and source materials. If you're hoping to purchase an analog recording, it's not genuine if it was first recorded digitally. Which...

Music's soul

Paul McGowan

The Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield, were unrelated. Their name came when a fan shouted, "That was righteous, brothers!", and would often greet them with "Hey righteous brothers,...

The sound of skill

Paul McGowan

The first high-end turntable I owned was a second hand Linn LP12. I don't remember the year but I do remember the era. Turntables had been elevated from utilitarian necessities...