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
Let's feed our valve
Now that we've gone to all the trouble to learn how to convert AC to DC and achieve the correct voltages we need for our equipment, it's perhaps time to...
Transforming
We've discussed some of the elements of a power supply, starting with the diodes that convert the AC to DC. I have mentioned the results of passing AC power from...
Smoothing ripples
I mentioned in a reply to a comment that one way to smooth out the remaining ripple of a power supply is with a regulator; which is an electronic device...
Noise
This morning I awoke in Las Vegas at 6 AM and, after going downstairs for a cup of coffee, returned to my room to find I cannot use WIFI to...
Mind the gap
Converting AC to DC, the first step necessary in building a power supply, seems rather straight forward. Take the AC and pass it through a diode (an electric one-way gate)....
The old In and Out
I will be getting on a plane heading to las Vegas in a few hours to attend CES, a show that's sure changed over the years. Attendance remains about the...