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 McGowan

The best chef in the world would have trouble turning out a great meal with poor ingredients. So it is with amplifiers. The ingredient of an amplifier is power. The...

We're not engineers

Paul McGowan

Several of my readers have written me expressing concern on the course we're embarking upon; learning about power supplies. For, as they have said to me, we don't know what...

Trick questions

Paul McGowan

I asked a fundamental question in yesterday's post. If the power supply of a piece of equipment is not in the signal path, how could it have an affect on...

Hearing what's not there

Paul McGowan

I am often asked why power supplies make a difference in audio electronics. For, after all, it's the power supply and it is not in the signal path. Being outside...

Technology's lineage

Paul McGowan

We gave a couple of Sprout integrateds to relatives for Christmas this year. They were thrilled. What they really were excited about is Bluetooth. The capability to stream from their...

Ho, Ho, Ho

Paul McGowan

It's Christmas morning and I wanted to say happy holidays to everyone of you. Thank you for all you do for the community, for music, for putting smiles on people's...