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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Elbow grease over upgrade

Paul McGowan

Received the kindest note from a HiFi Family member. "Hi Paul I recently bought your book "the loudspeaker" and sacd and on my first try my jaw dropped! You don't...

Brand stories

Paul McGowan

My underpants are branded by Ralph Lauren. I don't know what to make of that. I simply purchased the ones that were on sale. And who the hell is Ralph...

Progress

Paul McGowan

If you look up the subject of today's post the dictionary defines it as: "Positive change, growth, or development in any specific field of knowledge or activity—a journey toward achieving...

The threat of new

Paul McGowan

New products and new ideas can go one of several ways: we can feel energized and excited, or retreating and threatened (and everything in between). In yesterday's post I shared...

Changing minds

Paul McGowan

We all know how hard it is to change one's mind on anything. But, why is that? Turns out to be something built in from our evolutionary past. Fitting in...

What's the point?

Paul McGowan

Do we need a point? Sometimes we do things like simply listen and enjoy the music. There's no point to it other than the sheer enjoyment of it. And, maybe...