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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And the beat goes on ...

Paul McGowan

My friend John Darko is a well known reviewer who lives below me in Australia. John's never been shy with his opinions, something we are all quite happy about, since...

Absolute phase

Paul McGowan

Absolute phase, or more properly 'polarity', has long been a hot topic. The concept is simple. In a stereo system a positive going waveform should result in the speaker driver...

Selling out

Paul McGowan

Should you be allowed to sell your music collection? I have a friend who wants to sell me his music collection for a good price. It includes both physical media...

Oh boy ...

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post entitled The thing about facts got a few of you thinking and questioning. That's a good thing. So here's an example of what I am talking about. There...

The thing about facts

Paul McGowan

Yesterday I suggested facts aren't always facts. Many 'facts' are relevant only to the times and our ignorance. Some facts you'll recognize as coming from ignorance: the earth is the...

Fact of the matter

Paul McGowan

Reader Brian Gray sent me a long treatise on burn-in and hearing. Too long for these posts, but I include a snippet from his thoughts. "... hearing the effects of...