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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Rate of change

Paul McGowan

When we look at progress we often use two metrics as yardstick of change: rate and magnitude. How quickly have we gone from one point to the next and how...

The musical connection

Paul McGowan

Terri and I were recently invited to our 5 year old grandson Leon's Christmas extravaganza. There, on the stage of the local high school, 100 or so kids from kindergarten...

Green Fires Burning

Paul McGowan

For those of you that have enjoyed my first two books in the Eemian series (a thriller centered around the idea we are not the first modern civilization), The Aurora Project...

Window dressing

Paul McGowan

It's hard to ignore window dressing. It's why I went for vegan leather seats in my car. Why McIntosh adds their beloved VU meters. Looks are important. I think it...

Computer masquerade

Paul McGowan

Despite all the years that have flown by since 1985, for many, the prospect of shifting from traditional mediums like CDs or vinyl to computer-based music still feels either daunting...

Impossible silence

Paul McGowan

Victor Hugo, the French novelist who wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame said "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." I think...