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
Off my axis
When I sit in the sound room for critical listening of course I always grab the "hot seat" because certainly in my system, that's the place where the best imaging...
Screeching
Today I'd like to finish up on SMPS (switch mode power supplies) and how they work in a power amp as well as why we don't want them in digital...
Steady as she goes
Perhaps the single biggest reason to use a switch mode power supply (SMPS) on a power amplifier is that the output of a properly designed one is more like perfect...
When is less more?
Yesterday's post explained a bit about how a switch mode power supply works - it uses a simply electronic switch to chop up the incoming AC into smaller, faster bits...
When faster is better
Of the two types of power supplies found on class D amps, linear or switch mode, the latter is taking over and the former is moving down in popularity. It's...
Different strokes
No power amplifier is more sensitive to the incoming AC power as a class D and that makes it critical to run it off the best power you can manage...