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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Hotel system

Paul McGowan

As we prepare for RMAF (Rocky Mountain Audio Fest) it fascinates me to think of the task ahead. On the one hand we're doing nothing more than any of our...

9 + 3 and bliss or anxiety?

Paul McGowan

I had a bit of an anxiety attack recently over the installation of my new home theater. After going to CEDIA and hearing Dolby Atmos, the new 9 channel system...

The future of audio

Paul McGowan

My friend, Seth Godin, wrote a great post yesterday that included a link to one of the more fascinating articles I've yet read on the future of audio. If you...

The last 10%

Paul McGowan

Reader Kevin Norton asked a great question. "If you put all your music on an SSD on the Mac Mini music server, would you get that last 10% you're missing?"...

Have you ever noticed ...

Paul McGowan

... that you don't notice when something's merely working right? It seems we notice only the extremes. We notice when something's wrong. We notice when something's extraordinary. But we rarely...

Music from the bookshelf

Paul McGowan

Yesterday I attended the CEDIA event in Denver. For those unfamiliar with CEDIA it's the industry's home theater, custom installation trade show. I go never expecting much in the way...