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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Integrateds

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post about the preamp conundrummany of you correctly pointed out that what I was referring to is called an integratedamplifier but perhaps missed my point. The day of...

The preamp conundrum

Paul McGowan

One of our customers was upset because he loved the sound of our phono preamplifier directly into his power amplifier but then not so much when he inserted his preamp...

The invention of MultiWave

Paul McGowan

Oops. Sorry. This post got left out and was part 1 of a 3 part series - of which parts 2 and 3 have already run over the last 2...

Striking Gold

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post we covered part 2 of the MultiWave story and how my experiments with higher frequencies feeding power to the connected equipment gave me breathtaking results in the...

The double edged sword

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's postwe began the story of how MultiWave was invented. We left off at the point where I started questioning what was so sacred about the 60Hz frequency that...

The cure can be worse than the disease

Paul McGowan

In our comments about amplifier damping and how higher damping factors offer better control of the loudspeaker than that of low damping factors, several of you wrote suggesting that some...