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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Questions and answers

Paul McGowan

The quality of the answer one gets often depends on the quality of the question or request that prompts it. Take AI Chatbots for example. There's an entire new emerging...

One last thought...

Paul McGowan

Of course, that's probably never the case as each thought leads to the next but it makes for a good headline. In any case, it occurs to me that as...

Out of sight out of mind

Paul McGowan

As we wrap up our little mini series on microphones it occurs to me how little attention we pay to them. Which, if you think about it, is weird. With...

Essential differences

Paul McGowan

Yesterday we waxed on about microphone preamplifiers and how important they are to the recording chain.  A couple of folks asked me what brands we have that are solid state...

Microphone preamplifiers

Paul McGowan

How many of us would argue that the quality of a phono preamplifier doesn't matter? That we would hear little difference between an Amazon special and a Stellar Phono Preamplifier?...

The chain

Paul McGowan

In our brief examination of the recording chain front end, the microphone, it's good not to forget what follows the microphone. In the same way a phono cartridge requires a...