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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Added Reverb

Paul McGowan

At Octave Records studios, as well as just about every other recording studio in the world, there is the ability to add artificial reverb. Reverb is defined as a slight delay or...

Accidental discoveries

Paul McGowan

Many of the products of science we take for granted were discovered by accident: penicillin, Viagra, anesthesia, the microwave oven, chewing gum, brandy, and even silly putty. The key to...

If You Can’t Hear Or See It

Paul McGowan

Most of us are unaware of the tiny creatures traversing our skin and body. Like this micro spider, called Demodex. This common creature runs around in the pores of our...

Bias Feeding

Paul McGowan

Ever notice how the more you become convinced of something the more you feed that belief? If we believe analog is superior to digital or vice versa, we tend to...

Multi Gauge Cables

Paul McGowan

If you had a chance to read my post of several days ago titled The Bypass Cap you might have been thinking it was about headwear. Or, you might have gotten my...

Is Accuracy Overrated?

Paul McGowan

In response to yesterday’s post, Steven responded: “If you take a recording and transfer it (a) bit perfect digitally or (b) by cutting a groove in a bit of plastic, running...