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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No DC here
Number 4 on our list of 9 areas to pay attention to is making sure there's no DC on the output of the DAC. This might seem meaningless and something...
Hybrids
Last time I wrote we had decided on our input device for the DAC output stage and now it's time to pick the gain stage. The job of the input...
Active or passive EQ?
Number 3 on our list of 9 tasks for the output analog stage of the DAC isto include any additional low pass filtering the designer may wish to add. If...
Odd or even?
I arrived in Las Vegas last night to attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and so the title of this post seems appropriate - except it's not about red...
Choosing wisely
In yesterday's post we decided on the type of output stage we wanted: balanced or unbalanced depending on the topology of the DAC before it or, in the case of...
Getting balanced
In our series on the output stage duties of a DAC or preamplifier, we listed 9 tasks that had to be completed and we've already covered the first. Today we'll...