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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Amplifier artforms
Sometimes that which I write can conflict with my world view of what we do. This happens when I am trying to make a point about one thing and unintentionally...
Food for thought
One of my readers asked me an interesting question recently concerning the appropriate time to make the transition from analog to digital. Should you do it as soon as the...
Make the right choice
Thank goodness we have choices in the devices we design into an amplifier; not all are best for a given application. If you were to ask me to list the...
Class B, AB, and A
Ever wonder what the classes of amplifiers mean? There's Class A, Class AB, Class B (and a few others). Here's a bit of history and an explanation. Early transistor power...
Turning the tide
Once the transistor had been released to the general engineering community it didn't take long before those that used it stopped trying to duplicate tube circuits and ventured out into...
Early amplifiers
I mentioned in yesterday's post that the early transistor amps invading the hi fi and consumer electronics scene were dreadful sounding. But why? The tale is long and complicated, filled...