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
Microphone madness
Without microphones we'd not have much in the way of recorded music. We'd instead be stuck back in the days of yelling into a horn in the hopes of directly...
Processes
As one whose direction is steered with his engineer's nerd brain, I am continuously fascinated by processes. For example, what kind of process do nut processors employ to individually open...
Nyquist
Swedish electronic engineer Harry Nyquist figured something interesting out. If you want to capture sound using digital audio conversion, you need to sample at twice the frequency you hope to...
Conflating D and A
In yesterday's post on tone controls, there were a number of comments about the use of DSP, yet few about the differences between analog and digital controls. There is no...
Tone control
There was a time in our HiFi history that the ability to electronically control music's tone was necessary. Necessary because the entire chain of electronics and speakers were bad enough...
Decaf
The taste of decaf coffee isn’t the same as caffeinated, in the same way that Diet Coke, vegetarian bacon, or high-end MP3 players aren’t the same as what they started...