PS Audio

PS Audio® was founded in 1974 by audio designers Paul McGowan (the P) and Stan Warren (the S), in Santa Maria California.

The first products we designed, manufactured and sold were all in support of vinyl records.  Over the years, our product line has grown to support every aspect of high-end home entertainment, starting at the AC power socket all the way to the loudspeaker terminals.

Stan Warren left the company in 1980.  Paul McGowan remains the company’s CEO and continues to guide the direction of the products and the company’s mission statement.

PS Audio is now based in beautiful Boulder Colorado, with engineering, sales, marketing, production and administration facilities nestled up against the beautiful Rocky Mountains.

Mission statement

To deliver the experience by building the finest high-value home entertainment products in the world.

We believe that the enjoyment of the finer things in life are the fruits of hard work and should be cherished and accessible by as many people as possible.  Music, film and video in the home are at the top of our list for extraordinary pleasures and give most of us a much needed escape from our everyday lives.  Music and film are amazing “time machines” that allow us to enjoy, over and over, stunning performances by talented artists from all over the world, available at the touch of a button.

It is PS Audio’s mission to bring these wonderful gifts of music and film into our homes with the highest level of performance coupled with the greatest value and ease of use as humanly possible.

A brief introduction to PS Audio

Engineered from the ground up

All PS products are engineered in-house from the ground up.  PS employs multiple teams of engineers in both Boulder Colorado as well as the European continent.  Teams at PS are divided into hardware, software, mechanical, production development and industrial design.  We use some of the most sophisticated engineering tools available and are strong proponents of utilizing the newest technologies in service of building state-of-the-art high value products for our customers.

Production of our products takes place in multiple areas, including our own state-of-the-art production facilities in Boulder Colorado.

Corporate philosophy

Our corporate philosophy is divided into two areas: products and customers.

With respect to products, we strive to achieve the highest value proposition for any product we design and build.  To become part of the PS product family, a device must live up to three challenges: build quality, performance standards and high value.

Build quality

Our build quality must be high enough for the product to perform flawlessly for a lifetime.  Thousands of PS Audio products built over 30 years ago are in the field today and making music for their owners.  We have the same high expectations for any of our products built today as well; they should last a lifetime.

Performance standards

Our performance standards are met by spending hundreds of hours listening and evaluating even the most minute engineering changes every step of the way.  Our goals are to first exceed our own high standards and expectations and secondly to outperform the products of our competitors.  We take performance very seriously and spend an enormous amount of time “getting it right” before any product ever sees the light of day.  If it’s a PS product, you can have every confidence that product sounds terrific in every respect and is in use by the entire music loving staff at PS.  We take performance and music very seriously; it is our life’s blood.

High value

High value is a subjective quality but one that is easy to spot in any product possessing it.  For over 35 years, PS has leveraged technology and our engineering prowess to build great value in every product we make.  When our products outperform another company’s offering that is considerably more expensive, every team member at PS smiles with an inner satisfaction of “job well done”.  High End performance doesn’t have to mean high prices and it has been our mission for many years to prove this axiom is true, over and over again.