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

Greener grass

Paul McGowan

You know the old saying about the color of grass on the other side? It's a snarky saying suggesting that once you get to the other side the color's not...

DAC outs

Paul McGowan

I have been pretty vocal about the importance of the DAC's output stage. In fact, I have not been shy suggesting it is the most important sonic element in a...

The dawn of imaging

Paul McGowan

Back in the early 1970s, when I first began this long audio journey, there was no mention of the soundstage or image of a stereo system. Music was attached to the...

Hybrids

Paul McGowan

Boysenberries and Labradoodles are manufactured hybrids. Before someone got the wild hair to combine a blackberry, raspberry, and loganberry we did not have the tasty fruit—not to mention how before that fateful...

All knowing

Paul McGowan

I love that some folks think that because we've been building high-performance audio equipment for the past 50 years that we would basically know everyone and everything there is to...

Hard headed thinking

Paul McGowan

I recently received a long and detailed description of why digital cannot work as well as the "real thing", analog. In that description the writer posits that because digital is...