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PS Audio in the News

TheaterByte.com offers a review of the AirLens music streamer. Lawrence D. Devoe, MD noted, “BlueCoast’s DSD256 recording of Australian pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins and violinist Rebecca Daniel treated my ears to the title track of their recent album Heavenly Voices. Both instruments and Fiona Joy’s vocals were reproduced with a warmth and a sense of space that put everything right into my sound room.” He also found, “Just as remarkable was an MQA 96kHz/24-bit download of Peter Gabriel’s best album So. During Gabriel’s duet with Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up.” The power of the expansive synthesizer, persistent percussion, bluesy piano and the details of this complex score were clearly heard from side to side and front to back.” He concluded his review by calling the AirLens “highly recommended.”

Click here for the full review.

 

In Issue 130 of Positive Feedback, Dean Waters began his extremely detailed review of the PowerPlant 15 by saying, “ If you wanted to set out to build the most perfect power source solution for your system, you'd be hard pressed to do better than Paul and Scott McGowan and their team at PS Audio.” He also commented, “It's easy to consider this a "must-have" device for anyone serious about music and having components perform at their peak.”

Click here for the full review.

 

Three PS Audio products were included in Future Audiophile’s 2023 Gear of the Year awards. The DirectStream DAC MK2 D/A converter was listed in the Best Digital Audiophile Product of 2023 (Cost-No-Object) category, and the Sprout100 integrated amplifier made the Best Audiophile Integrated Amp of 2023 rankings. The Stellar PowerPlant 3 power regenerator won the Best Audiophile Accessory of 2023 award. Future Audiophile said, “The technology in the PS Audio Stellar PowerPlant 3 isn’t new, but is vastly improved over the years to solve even more of today’s real-world power problems.”

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PS Audio in the News

PS Audio in the News

TheaterByte.com offers a review of the AirLens music streamer. Lawrence D. Devoe, MD noted, “BlueCoast’s DSD256 recording of Australian pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins and violinist Rebecca Daniel treated my ears to the title track of their recent album Heavenly Voices. Both instruments and Fiona Joy’s vocals were reproduced with a warmth and a sense of space that put everything right into my sound room.” He also found, “Just as remarkable was an MQA 96kHz/24-bit download of Peter Gabriel’s best album So. During Gabriel’s duet with Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up.” The power of the expansive synthesizer, persistent percussion, bluesy piano and the details of this complex score were clearly heard from side to side and front to back.” He concluded his review by calling the AirLens “highly recommended.”

Click here for the full review.

 

In Issue 130 of Positive Feedback, Dean Waters began his extremely detailed review of the PowerPlant 15 by saying, “ If you wanted to set out to build the most perfect power source solution for your system, you'd be hard pressed to do better than Paul and Scott McGowan and their team at PS Audio.” He also commented, “It's easy to consider this a "must-have" device for anyone serious about music and having components perform at their peak.”

Click here for the full review.

 

Three PS Audio products were included in Future Audiophile’s 2023 Gear of the Year awards. The DirectStream DAC MK2 D/A converter was listed in the Best Digital Audiophile Product of 2023 (Cost-No-Object) category, and the Sprout100 integrated amplifier made the Best Audiophile Integrated Amp of 2023 rankings. The Stellar PowerPlant 3 power regenerator won the Best Audiophile Accessory of 2023 award. Future Audiophile said, “The technology in the PS Audio Stellar PowerPlant 3 isn’t new, but is vastly improved over the years to solve even more of today’s real-world power problems.”

Click here for the full article.

 

 

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