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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It's not a DSD world .... yet

Paul McGowan

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...

Lost my bits!

Paul McGowan

I've been thinking hard about how to simply and easily explain DSD, 1-bit, Pulse Density (all pretty much the same thing) and decided it'll be easier to break it up...

Cherished Audiophile beliefs

Paul McGowan

In my post Climbing the ladderI pointed out that something fundamental changed between the introduction of digital audio and today with respect to DAC architecture. DACs of old (we're only...

If the creek don't rise ......

Paul McGowan

Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts you've sent our way during this crazy time here in Boulder. Turns out we have three historic flood levels, the 25...

If the creek don't rise ......

Paul McGowan

Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts you've sent our way during this crazy time here in Boulder. Turns out we have three historic flood levels, the 25...

Sony tries to end crappy sound!

Paul McGowan

How's that for a headline! It's sad that probably got your attention because of the absurd nature of the claim. Sad indeed. "Last week, Sony Corporation announced a new line...