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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Progress

Paul McGowan

If you look up the subject of today's post the dictionary defines it as: "Positive change, growth, or development in any specific field of knowledge or activity—a journey toward achieving...

The threat of new

Paul McGowan

New products and new ideas can go one of several ways: we can feel energized and excited, or retreating and threatened (and everything in between). In yesterday's post I shared...

Changing minds

Paul McGowan

We all know how hard it is to change one's mind on anything. But, why is that? Turns out to be something built in from our evolutionary past. Fitting in...

What's the point?

Paul McGowan

Do we need a point? Sometimes we do things like simply listen and enjoy the music. There's no point to it other than the sheer enjoyment of it. And, maybe...

In or out of house?

Paul McGowan

The Aspen loudspeakers are making quite a name for themselves. From sharing the stage with Magico, B and W, and Magnepan in The Absolute Sound's Greatest Bargain's in Loudspeakers, to gracing the covers of...

Dry vs. wet

Paul McGowan

What makes a recording sound dry or wet? Musician, Tony Furtado's Raleigh and Spencer, for example, is quite "wet". Have a listen to the opening of the piece where the drums...