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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SET down for this one
One of the quirkier and exotic types of power amplifiers are a tube based product known as a Single Ended Triode or SET for short. A SET is a class...
What you put in doesn't always come out
Thank you for all the replies to yesterday's question about loud levels and compressed sounding peaks. I would say that the response was about 50/50 that you experienced what I...
Compression
In our quest to figure out why we might need a big power amplifier vs. a smaller power amplifier I've mentioned a lot of numbers: some scary big. Many of...
Watts ain't watts
Before we get started on different amplifiers and why some seem to sound more dynamic than others, I wanted to clear up a couple of points about yesterday's post showing...
Tambourines
Reviewer Keith Howard sent me an interesting note a few days ago that really was an eye opener for me when it comes to understanding how loud music actually gets....
Music math
Thanks to reader John McRee for suggesting the title of today's post. Yesterday we learned we need 8 times more power to reproduce speech than we do sine waves -...