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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Common modes
Yesterday we started our series on Class D amps and how they work. We went through the all important input stage but before we get moving, however, quite a few...
Class is now in session
Sorry about the headline, just couldn't resist. We are going to start delving into the working of Class D amps, also incorrectly known as "digital amps" and correctly labeled PWM...
How may I serve you?
If for some reason your power amplifier puts DC into your loudspeaker you'll wind up letting the magic blue smoke out and killing your loudspeaker. "Magic blue" smoke is engineering...
Getting straight in
Yesterday I promised we'd jump into Class D amps and how they work - but before going there I wanted to take a short detour - one that a few...
Getting in the way
We've been focusing on amps and their design philosophies as a precursor to the release of our new power amplifier this summer. I thought it instructive to write about the...
Compromises
Designing any product for consumer electronics is a series of design choices - better known in some circles as compromises - giving one thing up for the benefit of another....