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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Paul's Posts

How could it be any good?

Paul McGowan

Got a note from a reader concerning the new power amplifier I wrote about here. "Your new amp is going to sell for seven thousand and you write the goal...

A Sunday thought

Paul McGowan

I rarely do any actual circuit design anymore. There was a time in our history where I did all of it, including making the PC board artwork with tape, dots...

New amplifier progress

Paul McGowan

I got pretty excited yesterday and wanted to share. Our chief engineer, Bob Stadtherr, has been doing the heavy lifting of hand building the first of two power amplifier prototypes...

Nature vs. nurture

Paul McGowan

The debate about break-in and its long term effect or, for that matter, whether there is any effect or not, is still being strongly debated. It's unlikely through this blog...

My guess

Paul McGowan

On our comments page concerning break in there's much discussion about why long term break-in matters. The biggest question revolves around the nature of music itself: an AC signal, and...

I just smiled

Paul McGowan

On the phone with a customer about DirectStream. He asked a good question. "There are other DACs out there based on FPGA technology. What makes yours different?" I was going...