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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Voltage
I get asked this question all the time, and perhaps one more attempt at an explanation will help. Voltage is what determines loudness. Let me explain. Let's imagine we have...
Working with new technology
One of the first CDs ever released was also one of the best selling CDs of all time. Dire Straits was released in 1982, followed three years later by Brothers...
One last thought
With all these days worth of techno gobbledegook about servers, I don't want my readers to go forward into the wilderness thinking streaming is complicated. Streaming is easy. Slap a...
The last puzzle piece
In our little mini-series on streaming audio, we've covered the overview, the server, the controller, and today let's finish up with the final puzzle piece, the renderer. The renderer is...
The controller
The bit in a streaming music system we are most familiar with is the controller: the interface that allows users to browse and select music to play from a music...
Serving the music
Whether your streaming music is stored on your computer, NAS, or up in the cloud, the basic function of a network music server is pretty much the same. The server...