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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Transitions
The transition from one format to another, say vinyl to CD, CD to streaming audio, PCM to DSD, embodies the future directions music reproduction is taking. Inevitablythe first transition period...
A bit more on bits
Several of you have written me asking about multi-bit DACS. You now understand how a 1-bit system works, relative to a 16, 24 or even a 32 bit setup but...
She turns into a tree?
Now that we have a rough understanding of the differences between classic digital audio (PCM) and the format Sony popularized in their SACD version of digital audio (DSD), it probably...
Wait for it .......
Converting analog to DSD is a pretty simple process in some respects. Even simpler than PCM. But here's a case where the concept may be simple but the execution is...
1-bit, 2-bit, oh my!
A quick note correcting what I wrote yesterday about editing DSD. While it is true you cannot directly edit DSD, I reported that Cookie Marenco of Blue Coast Records recorded...
It's not a DSD world .... yet
In my opinion the future of all high resolution capable DACS is DSD. As mentioned earlier, most modern DACS are already converting PCM to DSD internally anyway, even many low...