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
Why I design with solid state exclusively
It may sound funny, the headline of this post. I love the sound of tubes, have owned tons of tube equipment and yet - I have never designed a tube...
A bias right in the middle
How boring if you're biased right in the middle eh? You don't lean to the left or the right, you're just middle of the road for everything - as if...
Best of both worlds
If you've managed to wade through this series of posts on tubes vs. transistors you'd know that while there are indeed fundamental differences between tubes and transistors that by themselves...
Odd or even?
No doubt you've heard terms like class A, push pull, , SET, full complimentary, single ended etc. These terms all refer to how we use an amplification device rather than...
Solid state vs. fields
This post will most likely stand the hair up on the back of EE necks because it'll be riddled with inaccuracies I will use to make a point about why...
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 -...