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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Maybe flat isn't good

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post about the grossinaccuraciesof loudspeakers relative to the perfection of electronics raised the hair on a few people's necks. So let me add to that. It isn't clear that...

It's worth repeating

Paul McGowan

Why is it we are forgiving and tend to overlook loudspeakers as a source of coloration in our systems yet demand perfection in our electronics down to the tiniest degree?...

Can it get better?

Paul McGowan

I was chatting with one of our customers on a recent tour of our facilities and he asked if it would be overkill to strive for higher sampling rates and...

Recycled vinyl

Paul McGowan

Reader Barry McCarthy wrote me: "I like reading your quick daily thoughts on the state of our hobby. Today's post caused me to to think of over abundance and how...

Offended

Paul McGowan

I have always smiled when I witnessed fellow designers getting offended by some engineering claim they either disagree with or can't understand - that is until it happened to me....

It's free?

Paul McGowan

Several readers commented on yesterday's post about adding features to our free music management program eLyric. The question asked is "why free"? It's a good question and one that deserves...