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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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...

Courtesy cables

Paul McGowan

I've been thinking. (God help us is the common refrain when they hear me utter those words). For decades now we've been including a "courtesy power cable" with every product we...

Recipes

Paul McGowan

When we think of building something—anything, from baking a cake to designing a new preamplifier, we typically start with a recipe. A recipe is a set of instructions that detail...

Containers

Paul McGowan

If I decide to enjoy a beer it is always served from an ice cold glass and never consumed directly out of the bottle. In fact, if there is no glass...

Guideposts

Paul McGowan

How many times have I been disappointed by following someone else's unqualified advice?  "My favorite restaurant is...." "Best movie I have ever seen...." "Most revealing speakers I have ever heard..."...

How big?

Paul McGowan

How big an image is too big? If the soundstage exceeds to limits of your speakers, does that qualify as bigger than life? Or, does it depend on the music?...