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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So how come?
As we end our series on PCM and DSD I have been fielding a lot of questions concerning our products and the lack of a DSD input. A few of...
Recording it all
There are about as many opinions on the sound quality of DSD vs. PCM as there are people who have them but the general consensus seems to favor DSD. I...
Errors upon errors
How many errors must a DAC make to get it right? Well, in a classic PCM DAC, the answer is none. 16 bit DACS of long ago relied on a...
Have a happy
To all my readers the world over, have a happy, healthy day today and please don't forget to give thanks for everything good and great in your life. May we...
Getting it wrong
We've been covering how a DSD/SACD converter works and we learned a few days ago that just about all modern DACS, certainly those that advertise 24 bit resolution, use a...
Timing is everything
Yesterday we discovered what 1-bit DSD looks like and how it's fundamentally different from that of the standard CD format, PCM. I am going to spend a few posts helping...