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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Adding capacitors
For the last post in this impromptu series let's look at my goal of somehow increasing the size of power supply capacitors within a unit connected to a Power Plant....
Peak demand
In yesterday's post, I said that today we'd discuss how to increase the size of the power supply capacitors inside connected equipment. A tall order, indeed, but I got sidetracked....
The home stretch
In yesterday's post, we learned that our homes present an impedance to our equipment of about 1Ω. This matters, as you can imagine, because when we try and drive a...
The free lunch counter
In yesterday's post, we learned that to effectively lower impedance we need to add energy. That's what a power amplifier does and what a passive power conditioner cannot do. In...
Shortening wire length
In yesterday's post, we posed the question of what might happen if we were to lower or even eliminate the impedance inherent in the AC power wires feeding our home....
The pass through chain
In yesterday's post, I gave a bit of background on our path at PS Audio of increasing power transformer sizing. Quite by accident, we had found that oversizing the power...