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

The lens of microphones

Paul McGowan

Everything you listen to is most likely colored by a microphone so "real" is truly subjective.

The ear's adaptability

Paul McGowan

How we evaluate live vs. recorded is anything but an exact science and can never get close to real.

The process

Paul McGowan

Are you rushing through your tasks to get to the other side so you can hit the next milestone?

Ask the tough questions

Paul McGowan

Head in the sand or asking the tough questions over and over again?

Personal filters

Paul McGowan

We selectively hear and see what we want to and many times this gets in the way of designing and reviewing audio products.

Everything's obvious

Paul McGowan

"Everything's obvious once you know the answer" is the title of a really interesting book I am reading right now (thanks to my son Sean). The title makes everyone snicker...