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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Merry Christmas

Paul McGowan

Today's a day for us to spend with our family and friends and enjoy life, music and the pursuit of happiness. I just wanted to pass along some good cheer...

Timing is everything

Paul McGowan

I wanted to finish up our little series on how Class D amps worked today, tomorrow we'll enjoy Christmas with our families and then onto new and fertile grounds for...

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Paul McGowan

Yesterday we covered Analog Codingshowing how we have analog in and analog out with a Class D amplifier and no magic decoding process is required as we have in PCM....

Analog coding

Paul McGowan

One of the reasons Class D amplifiers are considered by most to be digital (technically they are not) is the need to encode the continuous analog input signal into another...

Just in case the world doesn't end...

Paul McGowan

Sorry, I am writing this yesterday and when I went to input the publish date I saw it would be the 21st, winter solstice, my son Sean's birthday and "the...

Amp classes

Paul McGowan

In the past few days we've covered a lot of ground learning about the various amplifier classes like A, AB, B which are the main amplification classes, referring mostly to...