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
Newsflash
95% of my daily life is made up of the ordinary day to day routine. That's hardly newsworthy. And that's the thing about news. We do not report on the...
Like minded opinions
I value more the opinions of people I am familiar with and trust. A stranger wearing earbuds, telling me it's the best sound they've ever heard, probably isn't going to...
HMV
More than 100 years ago, at London's 363 Oxford Street, a record shop opened with an interesting title. His Master's Voice. For years, that shop was an iconic staple until its closure in 2019....
The sunk cost myth
I am guessing all of us have had to deal with dead end streets. We go down a hopeful road investing our time, funds, hopes, and dreams only to wind up realizing...
Mistakes and all
One of the joys of live recording and performing are all the mistakes and recoveries. They bring life to the stage. When an artist comes to record at Octave Record's...
Your first time
I still remember the time and place I first heard Dark Side of the Moon and Sgt. Peppers. These are indelibly etched in my head because these musical works were unlike...