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
Bag of tricks
The term "bag of tricks" finds its origins in an ancient fable by Aesop, "The Fox and the Cat". In this tale, a boastful fox claims to possess a whole bag...
The missing element
With all the emphasis on equipment and music it's sometimes easy to ignore one of the most critical aspects of our high-end audio systems. The chair. One of the first...
Buried treasure
When something jumps out at us—hearing a difference from another room or a slap in the face improvement—we tend to place far more importance on it then if we have...
First impressions
Over my many years I have noticed a few differentiating traits in people. One of them is our trust level in first impressions. When we hear something for the first...
The collector
Most of us have built our systems over a period of time. We've collected, refined, ousted, included, and settled on this amplifier, that loudspeaker, those cables. Our systems are rarely...
Pliable standards
Years ago I visited a famous audio reviewer's home. I was there to make sure our new piece of kit he was about to review was properly setup. I was...