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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Capacitors
I wrote in yesterday's post about Direct Coupling audio circuits; a practice that started in the late 1970's and continues through today. Direct coupling describes a direct connection between two...
Direct coupling
In the early days of solid state electronics for high end audio just about all preamps had capacitors on both their inputs as well as between their outputs and their...
Ringing
If you stimulate something it responds back in kind. Strike a bell and it rings. Pass a transient through an audio circuit and it too rings giving you more than...
Just pluck it!
Pluck or strum a stringed instrument and you get sound from the vibrating strings amplified by the attached hollow box. As we have mentioned earlier the sound of that plucked...
Gas pedals and plucks
I've always been fascinated that a simple push of the automobile's accelerator pedal engages a huge and powerful machine into action. Just think of all that's happening when you press...
Music loving animals
Yesterday's post about the nature of transients on musical notes start and stops raised a few eyebrows from readers; not because of the subject at hand but the comment I...