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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Sonic texture

Paul McGowan

Describing what we hear as having a texture is an interesting Audiophile term. What's the texture of a violin or a tuba? Do these instruments even have a texture? Not...

Emotional library

Paul McGowan

I tried explaining the organization of my music library to our chief engineer. He has a very logical structured mind. There is little obvious logic and structure to my library....

Passion

Paul McGowan

The word passion has a number of definitions but the one I like the best comes from the Urban Dictionary: "Passion is when you put more energy into something than...

Great mysteries

Paul McGowan

There are many great mysteries in the world: how the pyramids were built, the Easter Island Moai, why whatever hair I lose on my head seems to pop up somewhere...

Depth

Paul McGowan

Depth is an interesting subject when it comes to audio systems. Properly setup your loudspeakers should be able to disappear and provide good front to back depth, meaning the sound...

When you eliminate the impossible

Paul McGowan

Saturday afternoon we had about 40 visitors from CAS listening to Music Room One. Chuck Zellig, whom you might remember co-wrote a couple of articles in TAS called Computer Audio...