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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Louder is "better"
A few readers have asked me to back off on being uber technical and get back to writing more about sound and high end audio from a listener's perspective rather...
Duties of the output stage
The analog output stage of a DAC is a critical element in the DAC's construction. It has a number of duties to perform and there are seven ways from Sunday...
Only letting a few worms out of the can
Now that we've figured out why we need an analog output stage on our DAC let's discuss why it's so important to the sound of the DAC. We started this...
It all ends here
Happy new year! I truly hope we all enjoy a peaceful, happy, healthy and prosperous new year. I am sure that would be something we could all benefit from. 2012...
Filtering
We've worked our way through the internal DAC chain to a point where we have finally decoded the numeric musical data into current steps, then converted those steps into voltage....
Conversions
Yesterday we traced the digital audio path from the input of the DAC all the way to the output of the DAC itself, which outputs a series of current steps,...