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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Righteous

Paul McGowan

Remember the Righteous Brothers? The story goes their name came from someone in the audience yelling "righteous brothers, righteous" in response to their performance. They grabbed the name and the...

There's that old controversy again

Paul McGowan

Our videos and launch of DirectStream sure got a few people riled up. Good. I was hoping we'd shake the trees a bit and we did. I am always amazed...

How less can be more

Paul McGowan

In a recent post entitled Digiphobia I remarked about the limited dynamic range of the analog/vinyl space. I also mentioned how much greater that dynamic range is with digital audio....

Just when you thought it was safe

Paul McGowan

PCM isn't PCM and DSD isn't DSD. Confusing, eh? What I mean by that statement is that not all PCM is the same nor is all DSD the same. We...

Digiphobic

Paul McGowan

I was surprised at the search results I got when I Googled Digiphobic. One of the first things that comes up is a website called Digiphobiawith but one page that...

SACDs

Paul McGowan

Super Audio Compact Disc, better known as SACD, is the Blu-Ray based optical medium that Sony developed as a next generation storage mechanism to the original Compact Disc. Instead of...