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
Planars
I love planar magnetic headphones. Not as a replacement for loudspeakers—far from it—but as tools. They’ve become essential to my work in the studio, especially when I need to zoom...
Consoles
And while we're ruminating about history… Before the stack of silver boxes. Before the separate preamp and power amp, the racks of glowing tubes, the towering planar speakers and coils...
OTL amps
I love history. There’s a particular magic in the simplicity of a direct path—whether it’s a live microphone feed straight to the control room, or the cleanest signal from source...
Make someone happy
If you’ve been in this hobby for any length of time, you’ve probably got a closet—or a shelf—full of older gear. Maybe it’s a classic preamp that’s seen better days....
Small works too
There’s nothing quite like the sound of a full-range loudspeaker. A proper pair of floorstanders—like the Aspen FR30s or FR20s—can deliver scale, weight, and dimensionality that just wraps you in...
The light switch
I’ve noticed something over the years—both in my own habits and in conversations with others. We spend a lot of time chasing upgrades, swapping cables, moving speakers half an inch...