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.
Easy to subscribe and even easier to unsubscribe if you wish. Join us.
Paul's Posts
Acoustic treatments
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
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
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
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...
Where Have All The Experts Gone?
As our industry morphs from its heyday of local experts to a more globally connected version, we see a shift that affects us all. I remember well the differing areas...
Ancient Extremes
I find it ironic that at the end of our audio chain lies some really ancient technology based primarily on magnetism. Loudspeakers, with few exceptions, are moving coils of wire...