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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Hardware choices

Paul McGowan

If you had a chance to read yesterday's post showing the picture of the new music server we are building, you may have noticed an inconsistency in the description I...

Building blocks

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I started the conversation about my building a music server from scratch. As one might reasonably expect, there's a lot to learn about how to build such...

Why is it never easy?

Paul McGowan

How many times have you tackled what would seem to be an easy project, only to find it's anything but that? Best laid plans and all. Because I travel to...

The ultimate voicing tool

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post of course got a lot of attention and that's to be expected. It's a big announcement and direction change, one I have been avoiding for multiple decades. I...

I never thought I'd write this

Paul McGowan

Funny how life throws you curve balls. I just got a curve ball, a left hook and a knockout punch delivered to me in one swell foop. I can't believe...

Listening vs. hearing

Paul McGowan

Reader Patrick Callery sent me a note suggesting the ongoing discussion on voicing really can be summed up simply as Listening vs. Hearing. I think that's a really good description....