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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Theory vs. execution

Paul McGowan

It's nice to build systems and equipment with hand-wave theories of the perfect this and that but turning that hand wave into something of value is where reality sets in....

Analytical vs. resolving

Paul McGowan

The terms we use in high-end audio are often confusing. When I listen to a pair of studio monitors like the ATCs I find them analytical, meaning they are cold,...

The icing on the cake

Paul McGowan

Look at the frequency response curve of any loudspeaker and you'll immediately see it is not flat. Not even close. Deviations in loudness at specific frequencies are denoted in terms...

The special person

Paul McGowan

Just because someone hears a high-end audio system—marveling at how lifelike and far from what they listen to it is—rarely does it equate to them running down to the store...

analog vs. digital

Paul McGowan

We define analog as a continuous unbroken stream, while digital means it is built from discrete bits. But, of course, our definition of analog is not accurate. Sound itself is...

Magnifiers

Paul McGowan

When the fine print's too small we put on a pair of magnifiers so we can better see the writing. I wonder if we might define what we in high-end...