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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Compromises
Designing any product for consumer electronics is a series of design choices - better known in some circles as compromises - giving one thing up for the benefit of another....
How old dogs code
When we start a new product at PS Audio it almost always involves code to make it work - even simple things like turning the power light on or off...
McIntosh transformers
Yesterday's post covered output transformers on tube power amplifiers and why they were needed. It also covered the fact that IMHO transformers are the last thing I would add to...
Transformers
If I had to think of the worst thing I might add to a power amplifier, an output transformer would be right up there - yet the vast majority of...
Headroom
Yesterday we covered one of the advantages of the higher power supply voltages afforded by tube circuits: linearity. Today we'll jump into the second advantage of increased voltage, headroom in...
High voltage
Most tube power amps have an advantage over most solid state amps: high voltage. If we look at a typical tube vs. solid state design, that tube design might have...