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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Paul's Posts

How old are you?

Paul McGowan

I seemed to have stopped aging between my 45th and 50th year. Let's call it 45 for discussion purposes. 30 years later, I am still shocked looking in the mirror....

Pleasure

Paul McGowan

One of the reasons we were so excited to launch the aspen line of loudspeakers was a simple problem. Over the past 50 years we've never been able to recommend to...

A matter of perspective

Paul McGowan

At Octave Records our recording, mixing, and mastering process are both praised and criticized. Fortunately, we get pretty universal praise for the final outcome, but how we got there is...

The Montreal show

Paul McGowan

On Friday, the 22nd, one of my favorite audio shows will open its doors. The Montreal Audio Fest will take place in downtown Montreal. Terri and I are flying in the night...

Architecture

Paul McGowan

The basic design of a house falls back on the architect. We can easily envision a two story ranch home with a basement, or perhaps a one level bungalow with...

First time

Paul McGowan

I received a wonderfully stimulating question from another 70+ fellow wondering why listening to classics from his youth didn't stimulate him in the same way as back then. The equipment? The...