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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Fundamentals

Paul McGowan

There are fundamentals in high end audio: speakers, power, sources, control, connecting cables, the room. I would like to explore a few of the more cherished ones in the next...

You probably have it wrong

Paul McGowan

I remember the first time I managed to find myself in close proximity to a pipe organ. Terri and I had spent the night at Denver's Brown Palace hotel and...

The better it works ...

Paul McGowan

If you think about it, the greater the impact something has in your system, the more important its role in your system. That might seem obvious, and it is, but...

Counter intuitive

Paul McGowan

As I have said many times in the past, few loudspeaker systems are truly full range. They are helped with the addition of a subwoofer. But one is enough? Or...

Single or double?

Paul McGowan

Sounds like something a bartender might ask you. Instead, it's a question relating to subwoofers and our home music systems. When subwoofers first appeared as separately purchasable products, the convention...

Punishment

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I described the crime I committed; stealing change off my father's dresser. He had laid a trap for the culprit, counting his change carefully each evening and...