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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A tale from Chicago

Paul McGowan

Next week is the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) and we'll be there is room 9013 playing music and saying hi to everyone that happens to come by. I am...

Listening with ears shut

Paul McGowan

If you take a stereo pair of loudspeakers and cover up one of the channels so no sound comes out of that speaker, what do you get? Mono. Right. Mono...

Sneaking in the back door

Paul McGowan

With the growing interest in DSD, which is the main format of SACD, I thought it might be helpful to explain DoP. Yeah, I know, too many TLA's! (Three Letter...

Getting it right

Paul McGowan

Getting the midbass right in a system is something many of us overlook in loudspeaker setup, focusing instead on the low bass. I have seen this time and time again...

Downsampling

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post 192kHz?I explained how we wound up with the different sample rates. A convoluted story at best. Today I thought it might be interesting if I touched on...

192kHz?

Paul McGowan

Have you ever wondered why there are so many different sample rates and why? The compact disc samples at 44.1kHz/16 bits. But then there's these other rates like 48kHz, 88.2kHz,...