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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Risks and rewards

Paul McGowan

They say that without risk there would be no reward, though I would have to counter with the fact there's no risk in my devouring breakfast, yet the reward is...

Understanding the impossible

Paul McGowan

One a recent YouTube video I made, A Tour of Octave Studios, I got a bunch of nice comments but one really stuck out for me. "Impossible", is how it...

Musicality

Paul McGowan

I am not a fan of some modern art. I have tried to connect, but some of it looks to me like a child's finger painting. Same is true for some...

The DAC

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I told the story of how we jumped into digital audio by replacing the analog output stage of a CD player. Off the shelf, Sony and Philips...

Starting from scratch

Paul McGowan

In early foot races, a line was scratched into the ground to mark the starting point for the runners. All participants began the race from this "scratch" line, ensuring that...

Hand crafting

Paul McGowan

Few (if any) of us went down to the local electronics store, grabbed an off the shelf receiver and matching speakers and called it a high-end system. In fact, for...