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
Old gear
When your spouse starts remodeling, you learn two things fast: nothing is safe, and you’re about to get a new job. In my case? Curator. Terri’s been giving PS Audio’s...
Time
Anything worth doing takes time. And the more it matters, the longer it usually takes. To wit: building a great hi-fi system isn’t a weekend project. It’s a journey—sometimes slow, often...
The battle
You can’t win an argument with a room. But you can learn how to make peace with it. Every audiophile hits this wall at some point (pun intended). You upgrade the...
It's not that simple
We don’t hear with just our ears. It's our ear/brain connection and training that makes it all work. Good to understand our ears are mere sensors. Microphones. It’s the brain that...
Quiet
It’s not the notes that make the music. It’s the space between them. That may sound poetic—even wrong—but any musician will tell you—it’s true. Silence isn’t just the absence of sound;...
Salt
You can tell how good a cook is by how they use salt. It’s the simplest ingredient—but also the easiest place to mess things up. Same goes for amplifiers. Big, powerful...