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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To see or not to see

Paul McGowan

...that is the question from a great article just published on our magazine PS Tracks. Lawrence Schenbeck, our resident musicologist and fellow Audiophile, writes a wonderful thought piece about Blu...

Why should I have to pay?

Paul McGowan

On the PS Community Forums we've been discussing a new product to serve music and how that product gained some features that not everyone agrees with: specifically a headphone amplifier....

Here's a whacky idea

Paul McGowan

We've been focusing on the importance of the room to a stereo system over the past couple of days. Let's dive a little deeper. Nelson Pass designed an interesting product...

Where did they all go?

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post about rooms and loudspeakerssparked a lot of questions about what diffusors to use and how to place them. Funny thing is, there's really no good answer any more....

You might find this a bit shocking .....

Paul McGowan

Good speakers in a bad room won't sound as good as bad speakers in a good room. Sorry, I know that's perhaps not something you want to read. We spend...

Is anything ever simple?

Paul McGowan

A great writer once said in a note to his friend: "I apologize for the long letter. I didn't have time to write you a shorter one." That note was...