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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Paul's Posts
How dense are you?
Yesterday I surprised a few of you when we learned that the output of just about every modern DAC with 24 bit resolution is actually DSD, or Pulse Density Modulation,...
Can't get there from here
The day of the 16 bit ladder DAC is pretty much over. If you were particularly fond of the beast, despair not because we have something better called DSD. The...
Smoothing ruffled feathers
I announced in yesterday's post we'd find out today why traditional ladder DACS are no longer used in high-end audio but it'll have to wait until tomorrow as many of...
Telling the truth
In our ongoing series on the differences between CD's and SACD's we've covered the first part of the CD process, encoding audio into a digital format known as PCM, and...
Dynamics
In our continuing series on PCM vs. DSD I mentioned a day or so ago that bit depth controlled two things: granularity as well as dynamic range. Granularity being the...
Jittered bread
Yesterday we summed up how PCM encoding works in the broadest of senses. I used the moving train analogy hopefully to good effect but my friend Len Schneider sent me...