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's Posts

Here's the dilemma

Paul McGowan

We are right in the middle of designing products for 2013 and among those products is a pet one of mine: an integrated. I believe today's Audiophile wants fewer boxes...

Swiss army knives

Paul McGowan

When you buy a Swiss army knife your expectation is greater functionality and utility in a single package - it is not that you believe you now have the world's...

My first separates

Paul McGowan

In 1973 my system consisted of a Kenwood integrated amplifier and pair of Phased Array loudspeakers (precursorsto the Dahlquist brand). The Kenwood had very little power to drive these loudspeakers,...

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...