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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Moody Blues

Paul McGowan

Cary, a reader in Thousand Oaks California wrote to me with the following question: "With the technologies available at the time, how is it possible for everything by The Moody...

Habits and fixes

Paul McGowan

I have an eating problem. Without fail, I somehow manage to slop food onto my shirt or pants or both. I am 75 years old and still haven't figured out...

Magic wands

Paul McGowan

When we're working on new product directions, one of the first questions we ask is where this potential new product fits in: an addition to an existing genre (like a...

The $10K switch

Paul McGowan

My car company offers a $10,000 upgrade in performance. A bigger motor? Different wheels? A rear spoiler? No, it's a software upgrade. Pay the $10K and within a few minutes you're...

What would it take?

Paul McGowan

Trying to convince a round-Earth believer that our globe is actually flat is about as easy as the opposite. When emotions run high facts do not matter. Take for example...

The cynic

Paul McGowan

It's easy to dismiss cynics as little more than an irritating trolls, but I would argue they have their value. The typical cynic questions everything and rarely accepts new ideas...