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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Audio tsunami

Paul McGowan

My friend Jack Bybee once told me the only result of being first in the marketplace is to be the recipient of many arrows in your rear end. In his...

Trends and patterns

Paul McGowan

If you look back through the history of high end audio amplification you see numerous design trends, followed by patterns of development to address their shortcomings and maximize their strengths....

Hard vs. soft

Paul McGowan

Ever think about where the naming of wares as hard and soft must have come from? I was sitting in an engineering meeting last week and the subject turned from...

Added warmth

Paul McGowan

Over on the forums there's a lot of talk about providing multiple versions of the Pikes operating system for DirectStream. Good conversations. Stimulating talk. The idea centers around tuning the...

Making everyone happy

Paul McGowan

Ok, we know that's not going to happen. Not with the latest Pikes upgrade for DirectStream, not with the latest tweak to a cable, power conditioner, feature on a Power...

It's easy!

Paul McGowan

Yesterday we launched a new operating system for DirectStream called Pikes Peak. The raves are coming in and we are very gratified to read them and share experiences. Ted's work...