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 McGowan

A number of you correctly pointed out I incorrectly called Michael Fremer a Vinylphobe instead of a Vinylphile - nice McGowan! Sorry about that Michael, I would guess most of...

Is there a perfect preamp?

Paul McGowan

Probably not and certainly since we can see far enough into the future to realize big sweeping changes are ahead for us when it comes to the control and preamplification...

Trying to put the genie back in the bottle

Paul McGowan

So if the days of the analog preamp are numbered because the number of analog sources for it to control are diminishing and if digital preamplifiers really haven't appeared on...

Digital volume controls

Paul McGowan

I struggled with how to write this because the subject's rather complicated and in the end decided to keep it simple. Heck, it's Sunday after all and we're supposed to...

Volume controls

Paul McGowan

Well, this is a fine hornet's nest I've gotten into. Half of you seem to think I live in a cave and haven't any clue what high-end audio is all...

The output

Paul McGowan

In the last couple of days I've been writing about the end of the analog preamp era and the beginnings of the digital preamp era. That's sparked a lot of...