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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Getting balanced
In our series on the output stage duties of a DAC or preamplifier, we listed 9 tasks that had to be completed and we've already covered the first. Today we'll...
Losing sleep
We're still on the trail of defining the basic requirements for the output stage of a DAC or, for that matter, a preamplifier because the two are quite the same...
Artist tools
Yesterday's post about the output stage sure got a lot of attention, in particular two comments I made: the posts are too technical and loud is better. Fascinating. Many of...
Louder is "better"
A few readers have asked me to back off on being uber technical and get back to writing more about sound and high end audio from a listener's perspective rather...
Duties of the output stage
The analog output stage of a DAC is a critical element in the DAC's construction. It has a number of duties to perform and there are seven ways from Sunday...
Only letting a few worms out of the can
Now that we've figured out why we need an analog output stage on our DAC let's discuss why it's so important to the sound of the DAC. We started this...