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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Sorry ...

Paul McGowan

In this morning's post I mistakenly characterized British law as 'guilty till proven innocent' and many of you have written expressing outrage at that statement's inaccuracy. In fact, British law...

White powdered wigs

Paul McGowan

In my rudimentary understanding of British law, everyone's guilty until proven innocent. The opposite seems to be the case in the US, we're all innocent until proven guilty. That may...

Summing it all up

Paul McGowan

I think one of the major advantages to bi-amping is using different amps: each with their own qualities to add to the mix. I know this runs counter to many...

If it were me ...

Paul McGowan

If I were designing a loudspeaker system and wanted it not for commercial release but just for myself, I'd bi-amp it or even tri-amp it, using an electronic crossover in...

Is one enough?

Paul McGowan

Recently we've been chewing the fat on bi-wiring, now it's time to take it up a notch: bi-amping. Bi-amping is the ultimate bi-wiring. Not only do you have two separate...

Building cables

Paul McGowan

If you want to make a decent sounding speaker cable it's not terribly difficult. Go down to Home Depot and buy yourself a roll of 12/3 Romex cable. Cut two...