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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First thought puzzle

Paul McGowan

I find it valuable to create thought puzzles to try and answer perplexing questions about our art. I thought I might share a few with you and then post about...

Stuck in the middle

Paul McGowan

My friend and fellow audio designer Jeff Rowland came by to say hi the other day. Jeff's always a welcome guest as he and I manage to nearly always be...

Getting a piece of it

Paul McGowan

I've written before that in the long run I find that we are very far away from reproducing live sound in our homes. We stress over cleaning and polishing the...

Clever engineering

Paul McGowan

A few posts ago we covered the topic of dynamics in loudspeakers and how a small pair of speakers really isn't capable of moving large volumes of air. Unfortunate but...

Battery power

Paul McGowan

For a long while there was a trend towards battery powered source gear. Advantages were many: lower noise, no cords to deal with, better isolation. But in general they did...

Yeah, but ....

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post Under the microscope certainly sparked some comments. Good. I think the greatest number of emails I got seemed to be in defense of people who really require affirmation...