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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Paul's Posts

The beauty of the remaster

Paul McGowan

Reader Kevin Norton sent me a link to a short review in TAS by Alan Taffel of the reissue vs. the download of The Band's The Last Waltz. The original...

Making music

Paul McGowan

In many parts of our country and, for that matter, the rest of the world, video on demand is increasingly available. You can demand standard video as well as HD...

The fun of it all

Paul McGowan

...and then there's the other side of being an Audiophile. The fun of it all. I stress on all sorts of issues and problems about this passion of ours and...

Are you an elitist chump?

Paul McGowan

I am afraid of heights. I cringe at the thought of walking out on a tree limb. Standing at the top of a cornice when the family's skiing, I am...

Standing out

Paul McGowan

Following Tuesday's post Always Hopefulwe sparked a lot of discussion on the nature of recordings; most being not too great. The few that are good a combination of three critical...

Forgiving or resolving?

Paul McGowan

It occurs to me that a system's character could be boiled down into a few categories: two of which might be forgiving or resolving. I've heard (and owned) systems that...