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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Battery power

Paul McGowan

A number of readers have asked about building their music servers around a laptop; not a bad idea at all and one many choose. And you might think the fact...

Progress

Paul McGowan

... it comes in many forms but it is always welcome. We reevaluated the memory setting on the Mac Music Server and found that the lower factory default setting of...

New DirectStream review

Paul McGowan

Of course I am always pleased to read a new review of any of our products. And mostly they come from the usual suspects. But sometimes they come from unexpected...

Burning discs

Paul McGowan

Don Craine, a Paul's Post reader, asked that I spend a few minutes answering questions about preparing a CD for ripping. Is prep important, what does it buy you, and...

Open minds

Paul McGowan

One of the hardest tasks for me, on a personal level, is keeping an open mind. On the one hand I jump at the news of new technology, am completely...

The preamp debate

Paul McGowan

Now that DirectStream's are entering people's systems the setup questions begin: chief among them is direct to the amp or through a preamp? This is not an easy question because...