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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Surprise and delight

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post Good enough raised the hair on a few people's necks wondering why I had apparently thrown in the towel and accepted having to make products and services that...

Good enough

Paul McGowan

When is something good enough? I think the answer is complicated but if we boil it down to two simple measurements it becomes easier to answer: perfection level and expectation...

Redo your assumptions

Paul McGowan

We just released some new software that changed the sound of our PerfectWave DAC. As is normal there's debate on whether or not those changes are better or worse. For...

A rose is a rose......

Paul McGowan

There's increasing evidence that rhymes, poems, meter and cadence in stories were created not because they are beautiful but because they helped us keep the words straight before the advent...

Why bad loudspeakers are ok

Paul McGowan

For the last two days we've been focusing on loudspeakers. We covered how they are anything but flat and why that's not necessarily a bad thing - something good loudspeaker...

Maybe flat isn't good

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post about the grossinaccuraciesof loudspeakers relative to the perfection of electronics raised the hair on a few people's necks. So let me add to that. It isn't clear that...