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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Live fast, die young

Paul McGowan

Driving down my neighborhood street I saw the headline on today's post emblazoned on the back of a young man's t-shirt. Now, I too was once young and headstrong (today,...

Point of first reflection

Paul McGowan

In yesterday's post, I wrote about acoustically treating the room. I had used a term unfamiliar to some. The point of first reflection. This is the point along the room's...

Acoustic treatments

Paul McGowan

It is ironic that the best acoustic treatment I know of is made from ordinary stuff. Books. Albums. We go to great expense and long lengths to acoustically treat our...

Reconnecting

Paul McGowan

As of late, I am receiving in my inbox a surprising and delightful increase of messages and heartfelt letters of thanks for our HiFi Family. Thanks for reinvigorating people's interest...

Status Roles

Paul McGowan

I am aware it makes some of us a bit uncomfortable to admit we use our system’s status as our calling card, but I’d like to suggest it’s fine. There’s...

Over Etched

Paul McGowan

I love this term (though I don’t appreciate its sonic impacts). It’s used to describe an unnatural emphasis on some higher frequencies some of the time. It is typically associated...