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
Back to the classroom
Thanks for indulging me my story of the early struggles with an outdated education system. I hope we've come a long way since those days of industrialized factory schools churning...
Mr. Shannon strikes
We'll get back to DoP tomorrow. I got a wild hair and wanted to tell this story. Kids today go to Middle School, a name that makes sense. In my...
Cramming useless information
Nothing upset me more about school than being asked to cram useless unrelated information in my head. Later in today's post I will ask you to do just that. If...
Wading into it
One of the more confusing aspects of digital audio is the two formats we have to deal with: PCM and DSD. PCM stands for Pulse Code Modulation and DSD stands...
DoP isn't PCM
Ok, there's just too many TLAs going around here (Three Letter Acronyms). Engineers are obsessed with them because it makes for quicker communication of complex terms, and that makes sense,...
We are all reviewers
For those interested in reading some first impressions of the DirectStream DAC you can go here and read on our forums. Reviewing a new piece of equipment is a tough...