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
Setup or equipment?
Which would you choose as most important? Setup or equipment? Or, put another way, which would sound best—mediocre equipment setup properly, or the opposite? My first reaction is setup. I...
Remarkable performance
When someone asks me what our criteria is for releasing a new product my answer often surprises them. "It has to be remarkable". That's so hard to quantify, right? I...
The soul of HiFi
Do our high end audio systems have a soul? Mine certainly has a character or a flavor to it and, sometimes, I think it has a mind of its own....
The cost of concert tickets
Is the cost of a high end audio system worth it? One could easily argue that if live music is our standards of reference, we're always going to be better...
Turntable or cartridge
Is it possible to suggest which is more important, the turntable or the cartridge? I think the answer's easy. The cartridge is more important that the turntable. It's actually the...
Cold fusion
The holy grail, the breakthrough that could potentially save the planet from climate collapse, would be a practical fusion reactor. Hydrogen in, electricity and water vapor out. With a fusion...