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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Maps and journeys

Paul McGowan

In our continuing story of the creation of the Digital Lens we're finally at the point where we have a road map of what we want to build. Now it...

Putting it together

Paul McGowan

(this is a continuation of our Digital Lens creation story) With clues One and Two in hand I started to form an idea. What about making a separate piece of...

The order of things

Paul McGowan

In my continuing saga of how the Digital Lens came into being we've already covered Clue Number One: the shape and quality of the digital output stream. And now we're...

Timing

Paul McGowan

They say that in life timing is everything. Arrive late and you might miss out. Too early and you waste your precious time. What about the digital datastream? How important...

Clue number one

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I had been driven crazy by the remarkable performance improvements of a product that made no sense. A CD transport producing the bits feeding a DAC. What...

Who's in charge here?

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I wrote about the state of digital audio back in the early 1990s. At that early stage in the technology's development, no one was jumping up and...