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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A different approach
Yesterday I promised you an interesting thought challenge that has to do with getting music to sound live in your room - something we mostly all agree our industry and...
Shouldn't we be getting close to perfection?
We've got 60 years of experience designing vinyl reproducing equipment, 30 years for CD's and approaching 10 for computer based audio. Wouldn't you think with all that experience we'd be...
Which voice do you listen to?
In a comment on my posting about voicing high end electronics the question was asked "Is there only one ideal voicing?" Great question and here's the entire quote. "And then...
Albert got it right
"Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count. Everything that counts cannot necessarilybe counted." Albert Einstein must have had high-end audio and measuring in mind when he spoke those words...
Voicing
Yesterday I happened to mention how we use certain elements to "voice" a circuit and that sparked a few questions. What does voicing an amplifier mean? Actually it's a really...
Op amps and power supplies
In yesterday's post we covered the problems with IC op amps concerning their huge amount of gain. Problem is, you simply cannot control how much gain they have and therefore...