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
Climbing the mountain
We just released a new operating system for DirectStream DAC. Some of the first reactions to the upgraded OS are very gratifying. This quote, from an admitted skeptic, sums it...
Cable break in
Before I finish the story of the first regenerator I started yesterday, I wanted to share with you a fascinating discussion taking place on our forums. The question had been...
Harebrained schemes
We've been discussing why we and other manufacturers don't build regenerators into our equipment. Real estate and expense is certainly one of the biggest reasons. But one of my readers...
..and let's not forget
While I am busy picking on Class D power amplifiers and their noisy power supplies polluting our AC lines we should not let traditional power supplies off the hook either....
Kickbacks
We've discussed some of the basics problems Class D amplifiers have when used as AC regenerators. The last problem I will discuss is one that applies not only to Class...
Spike it!
So why is a Class D switching amplifier not a great choice for building an AC regenerator? It sure seems like it would be perfect: it's efficient, powerful, low distortion...