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
Dynamics
In our continuing series on PCM vs. DSD I mentioned a day or so ago that bit depth controlled two things: granularity as well as dynamic range. Granularity being the...
Jittered bread
Yesterday we summed up how PCM encoding works in the broadest of senses. I used the moving train analogy hopefully to good effect but my friend Len Schneider sent me...
Bits and bits
Yesterday we explained how we take snapshots or pictures of the changing voltage stream known as analog. Each picture is actually a single voltage measurement at a fixed point in...
Breakdown
Oops. Yesterday I proclaimed that the 26 letters of the English language were a type of code restricted to a finite number of possibilities based on 226and this is simply...
67,108,864
We're working on a new series that will help us get a better understanding of SACD's vs. good old CD's. At the heart of everything is really two competing digital...
Telegraphing music
I hope you'll indulge me on this series as I want to take it in smaller, slower bites one day at a time. I do get mail from time to...