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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The RIAA curve

Paul McGowan

I am guessing most of my readers know what the RIAA EQ curve is—a 20dB boost to the high frequencies and a 20dB cut to the low frequencies when mastering a...

What's in a name?

Paul McGowan

While traveling the other day, Terri and I perused the breakfast menu. There it was, a fancy combination of heirloom tomato tartine with a labneh spread. Sounds pretty exotic until you break...

Unsung heroes

Paul McGowan

In any multi-person organization it's the combined effort of the many members that make it a success. Problem is, how do you effectively single out one person for praise? The...

Audiophile Day

Paul McGowan

Woo Hoo! It's here again. The day we celebrate who we are and relate to. Audiophiles. I don't know if it's just me or if the world really has changed, but...

The smell of space

Paul McGowan

Who knew? Heading home from PS Audio last week and listening to the radio, the subject moved to some billionaire who had bought himself a ride on one of Space X...

Lots of wires

Paul McGowan

And while we're marinating on yesterday's post about lots of boxes I am also wondering about lots of wire. I look at my reference system and see the maze of cables...