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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Enjoying or working?

Paul McGowan

Happy December! I was just watching some silly show last night and was reminded the Mayan calendar says the world ends in 21 days. Let's make the best of what...

From the heart or the head

Paul McGowan

Most of us understand that we can connect to music from multiple angles: emotional, analytical, as a student, as a teacher, as a critic or just just casually. However we...

Trying too hard

Paul McGowan

When we first started PS Audio in the mid 1970's Stan and I were hell bent for leather on getting as close as we could to our reference preamplifier's sound,...

Court and Spark

Paul McGowan

Back in the mid 1970's when Stan and I were first starting PS Audio we both had a lot to learn: Stan electronics, me listening. Stan was the Audiophile while...

The art of listening

Paul McGowan

One of the best listeners I know is my wife Terri. She can sit down in the listening room and hear a track she likes, listen to the same thing...

PS and DSD

Paul McGowan

Over the last few days we've been discussing the two main technologies in digital audio today: PCM and DSD. In my mind there's no doubt that DSD is superior to...