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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The controller

Paul McGowan

The bit in a streaming music system we are most familiar with is the controller: the interface that allows users to browse and select music to play from a music...

Serving the music

Paul McGowan

Whether your streaming music is stored on your computer, NAS, or up in the cloud, the basic function of a network music server is pretty much the same. The server...

3 essential elements

Paul McGowan

My friend and former TAS writer, AGB, suggested it might be time to refresh our knowledge of how streaming audio works. There are tons of misconceptions and even a few...

Unconditional Surrender

Paul McGowan

HiFi Family member Mark Lloyd, from Toronto, wrote to me with this wonderful note: “The use of superlatives to describe innovative new products in high-end audio makes it hard to...

The power nap

Paul McGowan

In today's fast-paced world, people are often under pressure to be productive and meet their daily goals. I know in my case, I have tons on my plate and cram...

Blanket statements

Paul McGowan

As soon as I read this note, I had to smile. "I spend a lot of time in the studio under extremely treated conditions and listen through some of the...