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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The talent myth

Paul McGowan

Small to large differences in sound quality on a high-end audio system are not always obvious to the untrained ear. In fact, one of the skills a designer of systems and...

Rubber and roads

Paul McGowan

There are so many considerations to component matching that at times it makes one's head spin. Speakers to room size. Preamp to amp. Cables to match.  How is one to...

Over the top

Paul McGowan

It's kind of fun to watch the cutting edge parade go by.  Recently, dCS announced a new 5-chassis DAC for sale at around a quarter of a million dollars. Our...

Housekeeping

Paul McGowan

My mother's plan to get me to cooperate was simple. "You cannot go out to play until you clean your room." Of course, my devious little brain would devise quick...

We go to market

Paul McGowan

In December of 1985, my dear friend, and Stereophile reviewer, the late Anthony H. Cordesman, wrote of the PS Audio 200C amplifier designed by Dr. Bob: "The PS Audio 200C...

Big choices

Paul McGowan

With Arnie's blessing for the 200C's sound quality being in the "same" universe as his huge and exotic vacuum tube amplifiers (though not in the same league), we were thrilled. To...