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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Charge them up!

Paul McGowan

The purpose of a power supply in an amplifying device - and let's be clear, by amplifier I am referring to anything that amplifies, even sources - is to provide...

Almost reinventing

Paul McGowan

I spent Saturday morning reading the January issue of England's Hi Fi Plus magazine. I was enticed by the cover's promise of 'Music being reinvented in the home'. This miracle...

Small leap

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I suggested what we listen to on our stereo systems is a translation of the original source; a mirror amplification of the original but not the original....

Translating music

Paul McGowan

Continuing with the story of power supply importance in amplifiers, we arrive at an interesting point; the idea that the original musical signal gets translated into something related yet different....

Happy New Year

Paul McGowan

Just a note to wish you and yours a wonderful new year. May 2015 be your best ever. Health, happiness, peace and music.

It can't get bigger!

Paul McGowan

Now there's an opening line that if this were not a public blog I would just have to add my own punchline to. But... My friend Larry Borden, editor at...