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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It's the first time, every time

Paul McGowan

Have you ever considered that a turntable setup in your home is completely unique to you? Every record you listen to, every scratch, tick, pop and musical note played on...

Sharing one's passion

Paul McGowan

We've probably beat this topic of being an Audiophile to death. The discussion sparked a few ideas about how we might get together in service of ourselves. There's advantage and...

Sharing one's passion

Paul McGowan

We've probably beat this topic of being an Audiophile to death. The discussion sparked a few ideas about how we might get together in service of ourselves. There's advantage and...

OCD? Hardware Nut?

Paul McGowan

"How is it that Hi-Fi—or High End Audio—once the domain of doctors and attorneys, celebrated in magazines likePlayboyandEsquire, essential element of bachelor-pads and dorm rooms alike, has come to be...

Feeling guilty

Paul McGowan

Stereophile editor John Atkinson's 2005 think piece How To Revive High End Audio is a great piece and partly responsible for yesterday's post admitting I am an Audiophile. As John...

I admit it. I am an Audiophile

Paul McGowan

I have been giving thought lately to the labels "High End" and "Audiophile". Why do many of us, including me, hide from these labels? My friend Bob and I were...