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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Squaring up
As long as we're thinking about things hard to imagine let's jump into a brief description of square waves. A square wave is just what it sounds like. A wave...
Bits of bits
There's an interesting misconception about analog vs. digital. One is continuous while the other is broken apart. At a certain speed, that is simply not true. Go fast enough and everything...
Supermarket sushi
Prepackaged supermarket sushi is not high-end anymore than a prepackaged receiver and speaker pair are. It's not that supermarket sushi isn't edible. When I am in a hurry for lunch,...
Zero DAC
I suppose my post of yesterday did not make sense to quite a number of people. Apologies for that. Let me try again. In 99.9% of the DACs on the...
The other side
Good speculations on yesterday's question. Thank you. On the subject of DSD's superior ability to capture music's essence (vs. a PCM capture) some speculated it might have something to do with...
One way street
Yesterday we were doing math to show how moving from DSD256 to DXD is, mathematically, the same sort of speed. DSD256 is a continuous stream of single bits running at...