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

What's up?

Paul McGowan

In a nutshell, it seems like everything’s up these days: shipping costs, parts costs, materials, labor. And, to make matters worse, I am certain it's not news that there’s even...

Paul's annual report

Paul McGowan

For those fellow backyard gardeners that remember the beginning of the growing season where I stressed about bears, squirrels, pestilence, and poachers, I have good news. Our harvest has been...

Cat's out of the bag

Paul McGowan

In case you have yet to see the latest issue of Stereophile Magazine, I wouldn't want you to be the last on the block to know what's going on. In...

Live fast, die young

Paul McGowan

Driving down my neighborhood street I saw the headline on today's post emblazoned on the back of a young man's t-shirt. Now, I too was once young and headstrong (today,...

Point of first reflection

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post, I wrote about acoustically treating the room. I had used a term unfamiliar to some. The point of first reflection. This is the point along the room's...

Acoustic treatments

Paul McGowan

It is ironic that the best acoustic treatment I know of is made from ordinary stuff. Books. Albums. We go to great expense and long lengths to acoustically treat our...