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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Paul's Posts
Linearity
The term linearity as it applies to amplification suggests a ruler-flat straight line. That is, for a given input voltage we expect a mathematical relationship with the output voltage that...
Parallel vs. series
There is a fundamental difference between projects worked in parallel or in series yet both have their merits. In the former, multiple tasks and projects are tackled at the same...
Capturing vs. permeating
There is a fundamental sonic difference between perfectly capturing the sound of a distorted guitar versus allowing the guitar to distort the recording. Many recording engineers do not understand the...
Tingle meter
I am convinced that the majority of McIntosh owners were attracted more to the big and cool front panel metering systems than they were sound quality. And, to be clear,...
Truth or preference?
In our search for sonic truth, there comes a point where the systems get so good their "truth" is more about our personal preference. In fact, personal preferences often trump...
More than what's obvious
In yesterday's post, I made the point that regardless of the delivery method—transport or streaming—identical digital audio bits received at the DAC should sound the same. They do not. Why?...