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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High voltage and linearity
In yesterday's post we covered the fundamental differences between tubes and transistors and one of those we're interested in is linearity. Tubes and transistors are only partially linear devices -...
The fundamental differences between tubes and t...
In yesterday's post we covered how the mysterious crystals used to make radio receivers first were spun off to the vacuum tube and later rediscovered to become transistors. Today let's...
From crystal radios to supercomputers
In yesterday's post covering the invention of the vacuum tube and its principals of operation we learned that small crystals were used as the basis for radio receivers and that...
The Audion
This is the first post in our series on Tubes vs. Transistors. I'll do my best to keep this fun, informative, not uber technical and to the point so we...
Tubes vs. transistors
Now there's a hot subject for you, one that's been debated for as many years as the two have coexisted in the world of high-end audio. First let me suggest...
When is less more?
Good friend Bill Low, CEO of Audioquest Cables, sent me a note answering the question about purity and perfection in audio. "The answer seems obvious ... Do No Harm ......