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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Worms

Paul McGowan

There are a couple of things we do not want to open: Pandora's Box and cans of worms. Why? Because unexpected and (maybe) unwanted artifacts are said to come crawling...

Listening to sine waves

Paul McGowan

Imagine sitting in your favorite listening chair, a glass of wine in hand, as you fire up your high-end audio system. You press play and a single tone emerges from the...

Mix and match

Paul McGowan

There's a certain beauty into just outfitting your entire system with the manufacturer's offerings. It's what I do and I love it.  Yet, there's also the powerful alternative of mixing and matching....

Fantasy system

Paul McGowan

I wonder what each of us would dream about if we could wave that proverbial magic wand around and have any system we'd want. Would it be an all encompassing...

Bag of tricks

Paul McGowan

The term "bag of tricks" finds its origins in an ancient fable by Aesop, "The Fox and the Cat". In this tale, a boastful fox claims to possess a whole bag...

The missing element

Paul McGowan

With all the emphasis on equipment and music it's sometimes easy to ignore one of the most critical aspects of our high-end audio systems. The chair.  One of the first...