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

The need for synergy

Paul McGowan

Our need for synergistic pairings of equipment, cables, and speakers is a failing. A necessary failing but, a failing none the less. I hope we can all agree that not...

Do numbers matter?

Paul McGowan

At what point do the measurement numbers matter? Are they valuable as an explanation tool when something sounds great? Or the opposite? If I use measurements as a history lesson,...

The art of art

Paul McGowan

One of the more delightful aspects of my job is when we get to travel to a cool place to shoot lifestyle photos of our products. It's a full day...

Stepping out into the unknown

Paul McGowan

One of the joys of going to a proper ice cream parlor is the ability to sample each flavor until you find exactly the one you want. Why does tasting matter?...

Repeating the "obvious"

Paul McGowan

Perhaps I sound like a broken record when I continue to emphasize the benefits—heck, the necessity—of proper setup. But, like my rants on the need for subwoofers in every system,...

Does anyone not struggle?

Paul McGowan

It seems to me that over the course of days, weeks, months, and years I experience waves of struggles and successes. And I suspect that is the same for us...