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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A matter of perspective

Paul McGowan

Absolute numbers used to judge quality and performance can be quite misleading when the trends of the numbers means so much more.

Who are you building for?

Paul McGowan

Producing shows and building equipment is really the same sort of process with one of the key elements being who are you designing for? The distribution/sponsor channel or the end...

Shame on you

Paul McGowan

Shame on you for buying online. Really? What century are you from? There's no shame in buying online but there is shame in buying from those who conduct their business...

They work but ...

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post Bad StorytellingI got a lot of flame mail suggesting I was being critical of tweaks that work like CD rings, green pens, RainX CD cleaner. I was...

Bad storytelling

Paul McGowan

Marketing is storytelling - has been forever. We should work hard at telling a good story and when that story is fabricated to explain something we don't understand, that's not...

Is magic real?

Paul McGowan

Is magic real? Of course not, but maybe, just maybe our propensity to discover the trick only gets in our way of enjoying the show.