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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Functionality or performance?

Paul McGowan

You can break the need for separates into two neat categories: added functionality, improved performance. If, for example, your system is CD based and you decide to add a turntable,...

Turntables and radios

Paul McGowan

Yesterday we gave a little history on the amazing invention of the "talking machine" that, for the first time in the history of mankind, allowed millions of people to enjoy...

Separates

Paul McGowan

The separates category in high-end audio is one that is continually occupying my thought process. On the one hand the idea of multiple dedicated boxes allows us to add specific...

Ketchup and separates

Paul McGowan

My good friend Jim Cohen is a world renown chef and makes the tastiest ketchup you've ever tried. Compared to Heinz or your favorite supermarket ketchup, Jim's is just head...

Getting bass right

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I discussed the fact that there are basically only two ways to connect a modern powered subwoofer: with a high level or a low level input. The...

Feeding a sub

Paul McGowan

I was ready to jump onto a different subject than setup today but a number of you have asked me to at least touch on how to connect a sub...