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 McGowan

In yesterday's post I showed you a picture of the home theater rack and described the two P10 Power Plants and the two Emotiva multi-channel power amps driving the system....

Nice rack!

Paul McGowan

I thought it might be interesting to describe a little about the theater we just finished building and what is in it. Here's a picture of the rack with the...

My basement

Paul McGowan

I haven't yet figured out what we'll talk about next and in the meantime several of you have been asking about my home theater project. I'll give you an update...

Important elements

Paul McGowan

So, if the power supply in an amplifier is THE most important element, more important sonically than that of even the amplifier circuit itself, why would it not make sense...

Wanna be a disc jockey?

Paul McGowan

Good Monday morning to you! Not sure why I started with that, but hey, Monday's can be tough. I promised yesterday I'd write a little bit about why the design...

Chop, chop

Paul McGowan

Back to how switching power supplies work. I explained in my previous post why conventional power transformers are so big. Now it's time to find out how a switching power...