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
Doing the math
Sometimes it helps to look at the mathematics behind digital audio to help us understand what's going on. Especially when that mathematics is simple arithmetic. For example, I get asked...
Risks and rewards
They say that without risk there would be no reward, though I would have to counter with the fact there's no risk in my devouring breakfast, yet the reward is...
Understanding the impossible
One a recent YouTube video I made, A Tour of Octave Studios, I got a bunch of nice comments but one really stuck out for me. "Impossible", is how it...
Musicality
I am not a fan of some modern art. I have tried to connect, but some of it looks to me like a child's finger painting. Same is true for some...
The DAC
In yesterday's post I told the story of how we jumped into digital audio by replacing the analog output stage of a CD player. Off the shelf, Sony and Philips...
Starting from scratch
In early foot races, a line was scratched into the ground to mark the starting point for the runners. All participants began the race from this "scratch" line, ensuring that...