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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Generating depth

Paul McGowan

One of the test tracks I am using to test all the DirectStreams shipping out today has a lot of depth. It's important that I check this sound quality area...

Axpona and catch up

Paul McGowan

Thanks to all the people that came by our room to hear DirectStream on the Emerald Physics Loudspeakers. We had a lot of nice feedback and I am always appreciative...

Shazam!

Paul McGowan

A few days ago I mentioned one of my favorite test pieces for evaluating equipment is an obscure track of Gershwin's Summertime. It features a single bowed double bass and...

Hopeless cobblers

Paul McGowan

I wonder how many of us would prefer a curated system to a mix and match version we create? Or, put another way, would the majority of people reading these...

RAM and music servers

Paul McGowan

I let you know in yesterday's postthat my RAM would show up today via FedEx. Indeed it did but yesterday was a crazy busy day as we work through the...

Listening carefully

Paul McGowan

Today the extra RAM for my music server arrives and is ready for the install. My initial impulse is to just grab the server and install it, expecting to go...