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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Close but no cigar

Paul McGowan

We got close. Really close. The technician finished stuffing the new input stage, our chief engineer Bob Stadtherr brought it up and tested it, he and I spent a fun...

Going against the grain

Paul McGowan

I promised in yesterday's post I'd tell you what I preparing to implement to improve the high frequency performance of the proposed PerfectWave power amplifier, and here it is: I...

Rolling the dice

Paul McGowan

I have often thought of my life as one lived by different people. I feel distinctly different than when I was a boy, a teenager and a young man. Different...

Reverse Bass Setup

Paul McGowan

Reader Ed Houck reminds me of one of the best methods for bass setup. It’s nearly foolproof and works not only for bass and subwoofers, but with full range loudspeakers...

How about another round?

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post A fish story my Chinese distributor suckered me into eating a snake, something I would never have considered doing since I was a pescetarian at the time...

A fish story

Paul McGowan

No, this isn't about the one that got away. It's about the one that bit me. Twice. Our story begins in China, somewhere in the hinterlands in a small town...