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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Everything Matters

Paul McGowan

Back in the 70s, 80s, and even into the early 90s there was no such thing as Power Plants or power conditioners for high-end audio. Heck, there weren’t even high-end...

Outsiders

Paul McGowan

Living in our little audiophile bubble means that everything we obsess over seems normal. It isn’t until we step outside the bubble and view our little world through the eyes...

Cable Placement

Paul McGowan

A great deal of angst can be had when it comes to the proper placement of cables. The worry is getting audio cables too close to noisy power cables and...

Paul's finally lost it

Paul McGowan

We could all see it coming. A screw loose here, a rattle in the old brain cage, a distant look in my eyes. Yup. Lost it. When Octave Record's executive...

Neighbors

Paul McGowan

One of my readers in the UK, Kevin, asked me a very interesting question. “I’ve noticed that when my neighbours are away my system sounds better with wider and deeper...

A Whacky Idea

Paul McGowan

Following my post about cable damage, it occurs to me that there is an opportunity for an interesting experiment. We’ve all seen the techno-wizard’s proof that cables make zero difference. They routinely...