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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Organic audio

Paul McGowan

Most of us are aware that consuming too many processed foods is bad for us. Eating what nature made as opposed to what comes out of a factory vat is...

The hustle

Paul McGowan

A friend of mine sent me a link from the Washington Post. I clicked it and was informed that while the article was a gift, they require me to sign up for...

The importance of the source

Paul McGowan

It's easy to think that everything following the source is where the magic happens, but that might be a bit misguided. Even the best systems only amplifies the good and bad...

The myth problem

Paul McGowan

"The only way to truly judge minute changes in circuitry is through double blind A/B testing." How did this myth of the double blind come into the popular culture and...

Torture test

Paul McGowan

When we run our standard tests for a circuit we send a single frequency tone through it, ignore the output of that tone, and look to see what shouldn't be...

Scale

Paul McGowan

It's not news that I am a passionate advocate for the use of subwoofers. I've been called everything from a bass freak to simply crazy—especially when I first took possession...