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
Buried treasure
When something jumps out at us—hearing a difference from another room or a slap in the face improvement—we tend to place far more importance on it then if we have...
First impressions
Over my many years I have noticed a few differentiating traits in people. One of them is our trust level in first impressions. When we hear something for the first...
The collector
Most of us have built our systems over a period of time. We've collected, refined, ousted, included, and settled on this amplifier, that loudspeaker, those cables. Our systems are rarely...
Pliable standards
Years ago I visited a famous audio reviewer's home. I was there to make sure our new piece of kit he was about to review was properly setup. I was...
From nothing to everything
Some believe high-end audio is all marketing hype, arguing that any well measuring off-the-shelf commercial system can easily compete with an expensive high-end setup. This perspective, while common, is something...
Chickens and loudspeakers
In our world of high-end audio there's a debate as old as time: what's more important, the source or the loudspeaker? This question is akin to the classic conundrum of the...