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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Defining moments

Paul McGowan

A defining moment is when something happens or is observed that changes your worldview. It could be as simple as noticing your car automatically goes into park if you unbuckle your seatbelt...

Part two of letting go

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I wrote about the difficulty of letting go, of ignoring sunk costs and moving forward. Perhaps an even more difficult decision is this next one. Letting Octave...

Letting go

Paul McGowan

It's difficult to let things go. Things close to you. But often it's remembering that money, time and heart invested in a project or a piece of gear happened in the past—sunk...

The big disconnect

Paul McGowan

When I was growing up our automobiles were connected directly to us and the road. Even fancy cars with this new fangled feature called "power steering" were still connected, just...

Playing your hand

Paul McGowan

Pull a Kleenex tissue out of the box and, like magic, the next one pops up. Of course the magic trick is simple. By interfolding the tissues, as you pull...

Plans

Paul McGowan

Most of us don't start out with a thought out plan of action when it comes to assembling a high-end audio system. Instead, we might start with a hazy notion...