# A chat with Paul McGowan
**URL:** https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107
**Category:** Everything Else
**Created:** [June 12, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107 "2021-06-12T03:36:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@vkennedy61](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/vkennedy61)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/1 "2021-06-12T03:36:30Z")
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### Author:  [@paul172](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/paul172)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/2 "2021-06-12T08:33:13Z")
There’s some good info on upcoming product’s in the interview!
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### Author:  [@jazznut](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/jazznut)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/3 "2021-06-12T09:53:47Z")
Can you tell which? It’s hard to listen an hour for it 😉
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### Author:  [@winston007](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/winston007)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/5 "2021-06-12T13:07:59Z")
New product info starts around 55 min. into the interview.
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### Author:  [@paul172](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/paul172)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/6 "2021-06-12T13:07:48Z")
Go to the last 10 minutes. He said the first octave streamer should be out this fall $2k, another perfectwave streamer will be out shortly after. DSD MK II this fall. The new speakers will be priced at $20k a pair available in 10/21 🤞🏻. The BHK 600 should be in beta soon no price mentioned. That’s what I took from the video.
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### Author:  [@mark-d](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/mark-d)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/7 "2021-06-12T13:33:59Z")
> [@paul172](#):
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> The new speakers will be priced at $20k a pair available in 10/21
Lot of seasoned competition at that price point…
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### Author:  [@paul172](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/paul172)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/8 "2021-06-12T13:50:48Z")
The speakers sound interesting (pardon the pun) 4-8” drivers and 2 passive radiators. 10” ribbon midrange and 1” tweeter.
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### Author:  [@jazznut](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/jazznut)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/9 "2021-06-12T14:06:17Z")
The Perfect wave streamer is the server I guess.
I have a problem with not knowing anything about the Octave SW features before trying such a unit.
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### Author:  [@paul172](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/paul172)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/10 "2021-06-12T14:22:13Z")
Yes on the perfectwave streamer Paul said it would have internal storage and will be around the 6k price point! There is a lot of competition at that price point! Both will be Roon endpoints. Octave software 5yrs in the making. 😖
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### Author:  [@jazznut](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/jazznut)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/11 "2021-06-12T14:30:02Z")
It will be a SW decision for me…if it would be more flexible than Octave and Roon, I’d go for the small one…with this limitation it‘s harder to decide.
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### Author:  [@paul172](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/paul172)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/12 "2021-06-12T14:45:55Z")
I picked up my first dedicated streamer. It’s a Auralic Aries G2 and sits in between the two Octave streamer price points. From what I’ve experienced with the Auralic I wish PS the best because they are going to have some stiff competition!
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### Author:  [@jazznut](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/jazznut)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/13 "2021-06-12T16:24:44Z")
Yes but it’s 3 times the price of the small one and also limited in connecting server SW.
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### Author:  [@paul172](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/paul172)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/14 "2021-06-12T17:19:21Z")
I picked up my G2 for $2795 with the capability to add a internal HD for server duty. The deals are out there.
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### Author:  [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/15 "2021-06-12T17:40:08Z")
There is stiff competition for nearly all audio equipment at all price points.
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### Author:  [@brett66](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/brett66)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/16 "2021-06-12T18:03:34Z")
Excellent point. It would be more interesting to learn of the truly unique products. We want not for choice these days. Too much of a good thing at times.
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### Author:  [@vkennedy61](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/vkennedy61)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/17 "2021-06-12T18:40:28Z")
The choices are many and varied. Pure Streamer, Steamer w/DAC, Integrated w/Streamer and DAC, Pre w/Streamer and DAC, etc…
I was recently considering a McIntosh C53 Pre but decided to see what the next round of PSA looks like.
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### Author:  [@McRican](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/McRican)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/18 "2021-06-13T01:52:07Z")
Sounds like it is going to be a lot of great new PS Audio products in the coming months. Hang on to your wallet!
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### Author:  [@Terrence](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Terrence)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/19 "2021-06-13T15:31:58Z")
@tedsmith Hello Ted, I saw this too when the interview just posted.
> [@adriaan](#):
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> announcement that the [DirectStream](https://www.psaudio.com/products/directstream-dac/) MKII will be provided by two FPGA’s…
Curious on how do you use 2 FPGAs? Do you need to divide your code to two independent parts? Or do you actually do a parallel processing (like those HPC guys are doing) on them? Thanks.
—Terrence
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### Author:  [@tedsmith](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/tedsmith)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/a-chat-with-paul-mcgowan/24107/20 "2021-06-13T15:38:27Z")
There’s some discussion about this over here:
[https://forum.psaudio.com/t/wishes-upcoming-psa-directstream-mkii/21746/603](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/wishes-upcoming-psa-directstream-mkii/21746/603)