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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Auguries of innocence

Paul McGowan

I sat down to write today but it seemed almost a sacrilege to scribble on about audio. Time to heal. I'll be better tomorrow. Let me share with you instead...

In memory

Paul McGowan

The last few days have been sad ones: first it was the passing of Tom Magliozzi, Click of NPR's Car Talk at age 77. The next day it was Harry...

Whirlwinds of change

Paul McGowan

We've moved from the holistic curated system approach, popular with dealers in the late 70's and early 80's, towards the DIY approach of today. But let's not ignore the middle...

Holistic systems

Paul McGowan

If we lavish more attention onto the equipment we interface with the most, as discussed in yesterday's post, what does that say about our holistic approach to the system? Unless...

Fundamental thinking

Paul McGowan

My friend and CEO of Audioquest, Bill Low, sent me a few thoughts on system fundamentals I found of value. Speakers engender the strongest relationships … they are people in...

Just one more thing ...

Paul McGowan

At this pace we'll never get to our core subject, fundamentals, but, again, I just couldn't resist. A day or so ago Microsoft announced their new wearable computer, weeks after...