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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Speaker quality and soundstage

Paul McGowan

I am often asked if one must have a killer set of speakers in order to experience the wonders of a great soundstage. Fortunately, the answer is no. In fact,...

Film caps

Paul McGowan

Capacitors all sound different, especially when they are in the signal path. Now, I didn't write that just to raise the hairs on the backs of engineers who scoff at...

Is Octave a rebirth?

Paul McGowan

On occasion I get some really interesting mail, like this from Chris in Ohio: "As a native Clevelander and a long time audiophile, I have always had a thing for...

The output buffer

Paul McGowan

Years ago, when Stan and I were first finding our way in the world of high-performance audio we had discovered something most of us already know. Less is more when...

Simply better

Paul McGowan

Simpler is better for quite a number of things including, traveling, truth, recipes, and math. But simpler isn't always better for high-performance home audio. Sometimes a bit of complexity does...

FR30 customer number 2

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's video, we introduced you to the FR30's first owner, Greg of Illinois. The challenge in that first setup documentary was Greg's smallish listening room. It's 10' x 14'...