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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Addicted

Paul McGowan

I try and run each morning before work because it helps my energy levels stay up during the busy day. Sometimes it's a real struggle to get moving and stick...

Trade offs

Paul McGowan

I miss the routine of choosing an album, removing it from its sleeve, washing the record, cleaning the needle, placing the tone arm just so and hearing the first contact...

It's the least I can do

Paul McGowan

We're ending our series on separates with a bit of a summary and a cautionary note. We've seen that when you set out to design a separate, whether its purpose...

Here's the dilemma

Paul McGowan

We are right in the middle of designing products for 2013 and among those products is a pet one of mine: an integrated. I believe today's Audiophile wants fewer boxes...

Swiss army knives

Paul McGowan

When you buy a Swiss army knife your expectation is greater functionality and utility in a single package - it is not that you believe you now have the world's...

My first separates

Paul McGowan

In 1973 my system consisted of a Kenwood integrated amplifier and pair of Phased Array loudspeakers (precursorsto the Dahlquist brand). The Kenwood had very little power to drive these loudspeakers,...