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PS Audio Direct Stream Digital DAC-New w. warranty

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Ships fromMarietta, GA, 30067
Ships toUnited States
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Original accessoriesRemote Control, Box, Manual
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We will no longer be selling PS Audio as they are going factory Direct.


This is our last DSD DAC

Now Roon ready and MQA ready to fully      decode all MQA with the included Bridge 2

             Free Freight in the lower 48 states


About Snowmass- Since
the initial release of DirectStream in 2014, each of Ted’s OS Updates
have bettered its predecessor. That’s right, the peaks keep getting
higher.
So what magic did Ted unleash with this new OS? We’ll let Ted tell you:

“For
Snowmass I rewrote the FPGA code that upsampled lower rates of PCM to
352.8k (or 394k, depending). I wanted to get better control of the times
at which things happened, in order to have more control of noise
generated, and more control of the jitter generated by the FPGA. I could
also get a better balance of the FPGA resources needed to do the
filtering. In the old upsampler I got about 144dB S/N in the upsampling.
In the new code I have about 156dB S/N. Lowering noise and jitter makes
everything better.”

Ted's description may make it sound as
though Snowmass would make only a modest difference in sound quality—but
 PS Audio CEO Paul McGowan found that nothing could be further from the
truth:

"Redcloud, our previous upgrade, makes huge improvements in the sound quality of DirectStream. But Snowmass is truly stunning. 

"Everything
is more open and soundstage depth is better-defined. This allows your
ear to work less because the image is more palpable and the illusion is
therefore much more realistic.  In the midrange, there's more detail
with less harshness, and voices and instruments are better separated,
more precisely located in the soundstage. It's easier to hear the
enunciation and vocal technique of singers, dynamic contrasts are far
greater and crescendi just leap out at you—and everything just sounds
more 'real'. 

"Snowmass is our best update yet, and as always,
DirectStream owners get this upgrade for free—and holy cow, they're not
going to believe how good this is. It easily blows away six-figure
DACs."


Rated Class A+ in Stereophile and PRODUCT of the YEAR. It was also Product of the Year in The Absolute Sound.  This is before the latest software upgrades as it is clearly better now. 
In the Absolute Sound review they said:
DirectStream’s
easily the best DAC I’ve ever heard in my system, making
digitally-recorded music sound better than I’ve ever heard it.


Read the full review at: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/psaudio/1.html The first review was also a Rave. Audiophilia summed up with:
"The
DS is a game changer; I think it has caused the ‘war’ between DSD and
PCM to be on hold or mute for most of us, and above all hold your horses
before buying expensive high-resolution PCM files or DSD. That alone is
a major accomplishment.
McGowan, on one of his recent daily posts,
stated in words the following as PS Audio’s core values/principles: ‘At
our core we give the middle finger to the impossible. When someone tells
me it’s impossible to make a $6K DAC sound better than a $30K DAC, or a
$700 integrated as good as a multi-thousand dollar one, that’s the
reaction I get; although I refrain from that gesture. The impossible
becomes possible when someone achieves it.’ "

"PS Audio has perhaps achieved the impossible with the DS.
Besides, one can now listen to a CD rip of War’s ‘Four Cornered Room’
without having to be high wearing bell-bottoms in order to appreciate
it. The DS gets my highest recommendation; hats off and a bow to PS Audio."

Read the entire review at:

http://www.audiophilia.com/wp/?p=13620

The PS DSD DAC is a fine DAC.
It uses an FPGA, a field programmable gate array, which is basically a
computer on a chip. It takes CD’s, downloads, high-resolution PCM or DSD
based media  and upsamples them to twenty times DSD rate and outputs a
pure analog signal directly into your amplifier or preamplifier. DirectStream
converts any digital input format, such as PCM or DSD to a pure 20x DSD
stream and outputs near-perfect analog directly to your power amplifier
or preamplifier.


DirectStream has seven digital
inputs which include: two I2S, one TOSLINK optical connector, one
coaxial S/PDIF connector, one balanced XLR AES/EBU, one asynchronous USB
input and one optional Network Streaming Bridge slot.  DirectStream has both single ended coaxial and fully balanced XLR outputs.

The
DSD DAC was 7 years in design and originally started shipping in late
April 2014. It was easily the best DAC that we sold then and still is
today with its 5th Generation Huron software. This current version is
dramatically better than the original that was Product of the Year in
both Stereophile as well as The Absolute Sound.

For more info check the PS website at:
http://www.psaudio.com/products/audio/media-players/perfectwave-directstream-dac/

   *   Pure 100% DSD based D to A Converter

   *   Full MQA decoding with optional Bridge 2
  • Resolution perfect volume and balance controls built in
  • Upsamples PCM and DSD to 20x DSD rate
  • Purely passive transformer coupled output
  • Improves imaging and soundstage
  • Simple, direct signal path with one master clock
  • Hand written filters, processors and upsamplers
  • Immune to incoming jitter problems from different sources
  • Increased digital headroom
  • No off-the-shelf IC DAC chips used
  • Uncovers musical details masked by typical PCM based processors
  • 7 digital inputs
  • Fully balanced from input to output
  • Color touch screen
  • This is a state of the art new US made DAC with a 3 year factory warranty at a great deal.


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