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
It might seem complex ....
One of my readers commented that "it sure is easier to just put a record on the turntable and play it" in response to trying to understand the complexity of...
Switches and routers oh my!
With all these crazy packets running around our network, like web page traffic, email and music files, how do the attached devices (like our DAC or our computer) know which...
Jigsaw puzzles
If you've been following along you now understand that music files are first broken into smaller identically sized pieces of data when they leave the computer. The data are placed...
Finding your way home
When we stream a music file from our computer, NAS or even the internet to our DAC over USB or our network, that music file is first torn apart into...
The packet racket
We've been learning that computers and computer traffic are shared experiences. Gone are the days when we directly connect devices together and the reasons for this are fairly simple: too...
Sorting apples
If you've been following along with our series on networking you now understand that regardless of how data gets out of your computer to your DAC - USB or over...