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 man who designed everything

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post I mistakenly called the great David Hafler "Bob". Oops, I think I had "Bob" on the brain. Sorry. But speaking of history, I think the stories of...

The mayor of Silicon Valley

Paul McGowan

When we first started PS Audio back in the dark ages of the early 1970's there was no such things as email, the World Wide Web or, for that matter,...

We got no op amps in here boss

Paul McGowan

I am always amused when I read in a manufacturer's marketing description that they don't use op amps in their audio designs - when what they actually mean is they...

Stereo

Paul McGowan

This is the final in our little series on live vs. recorded. We've ben discussing recordings and how it is that with some types of recordings and setup we can...

Pondering

Paul McGowan

Yesterday I proposed a thought problem once again. This time we compared the direct output of a stereo microphone vs. the recorded output of that same microphone while a group...

Whoa Nellie

Paul McGowan

Yesterday's post got quite a few of you riled up when I suggested a guitar pickup is just as sensitive to transients and subtle details and produces the same "simple"...