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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Cats out of bags

Paul McGowan

Sometimes I am the dumbest person I know. Which is saying a lot because I know a lot of people. Worse yet, at my age you'd think I'd have gotten...

Directional engineering

Paul McGowan

There are two types of engineering directions if we take a broad stroke view: forward and reverse. Forward engineering might look like engineering a new product from a simple idea...

The perfect music collection

Paul McGowan

Here's a quick observation about listening to music and making evaluations. If I listen alone it often takes more time to figure out differences than if I have someone else...

Buried treasure

Paul McGowan

My friend Laura writes to me. "Color me stubborn or old fashion if you like, but I just can't get the emotional involvement from digital I have with vinyl. From...

Who could it be?

Paul McGowan

Nearly every person I encounter that isn't familiar with high-end audio tells me the same thing. "I could never tell good sound from bad sound. I don't have golden ears."...

Do you like vinyl?

Paul McGowan

I like vinyl and I am guessing a number of you do as well. But let me suggest that if we like vinyl, what we really mean is we like...