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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Planting a new seed

Paul McGowan

One of my readers wrote this in response to my post The gift of music. "My daughter is 16 and part of the MP3 generation. I am trying, and gave...

Feeding and caring for our biases

Paul McGowan

Over on the Community Forums one of our posters suggested they had previously owned several class D amplifiers and found them to sound thin, cold and unengaging. "Why would anyone...

The gift of music

Paul McGowan

Yesterday was Christmas and as we opened our presents it occurred to me that few of us give music anymore. At least my family doesn't give music as a gift....

That time of year

Paul McGowan

Winter solstice is on December 21st. It is the shortest day of the year. History is full of celebrations around the solstice, and I am pretty sure just about every...

2+2 =

Paul McGowan

Andy, one of my readers, shared with me a special moment that just happened to him: he got the speaker he's lusted after all these years, a pair of Acoustat...

Have you ever noticed?

Paul McGowan

... that we don't notice things until we hear something different? That we don't notice there's no body to a cymbal until we hear one that has it? Or we...