Axpona We shared a room with the good folks at Scaena loudspeakers and High-Fidelity Cables, while at Axpona in Chicago, last weekend. The speakers, room, and electronics performed perfectly together and we received great feedback from listeners. Shows are always interesting. You have one day to cart all your stuff in, unbox it, set it…

Stellar Preorders “I’m only 75 hours in and I’m absolutely loving my Stellar Gain Cell Dac!! Expansive soundstage, beautiful dynamics, crisp and warm, musical sounding, detailed, sharp looking in black with a gorgeous display, and able to expertly handle everything I’ve thrown at it. From Seal to Chopin, Herbie Hancock to Bach Solo Cello Suites, Adel to…

M700 monoblocks The long awaited Stellar M700 monoblock amplifiers are finally shipping. These are the betas anxious owners have been chomping at the bit for. Why were they late? Delays with chassis finishes and finalizing the circuitry to make sure engineer Darren Myers and I were happy with the sound. These problems have been solved—they…

Stellar Ships Stellar, our new line of affordable high-end audio electronics is shipping. Check out production team leader, Lou Gehringer, cleaning a stack of beta S300 Stereo power amplifiers just before they get packaged. Exciting stuff. Beta testing of the Stellar amps and Gain Cell DAC begins next week and runs through the month of February. Beta testers…

Brrrrr Man! I don’t know about where you live but here in Boulder winter came thundering in with a vengeance. Pipes frozen, people slipping, lots of snow shoveling. Old man winter blew in from the north as temperatures dropped well below zero. On Saturday the thermometer didn’t rise above 2˚F. It was so cold my…

Almost there! Thanks to the hard work of our DirectStream Memory Player Beta testers as well as our dedicated team of programmers, DMP is just about ready. If you’ve been keeping up with the forums and its progress it’s not been easy, but we’re just about done. With today’s release of firmware we’re thrilled with…

Beta testing starts soon Thanks for all the great support with the upcoming DirectStream Memory Player. We’ve filled the beta tester slots and units will begin shipping out of our Boulder offices shortly. This is all very exciting, especially the way we beta test products in public. Not many companies have taken such a public…

Find out how this revolutionary new disc player is changing everything we know about CD and SACD reproduction Ushering in a new era of CD performance 8 years in the making, the new DirectStream Memory Player will soon redefine our thoughts on what is possible. Where once we believed the best disc players had wrung…

BHK Signature Preamp Review The BHK preamplifier shipped to our beta testers as well as a few reviewers. I am delighted to let you know the first of those reviews has hit the newstand—at least so to speak. Reviewer Karl Sigman has been living with the BHK Signature Preamplifier for close to a month now….

You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Connecting your computer to your DAC may be the hardest connection to get right. USB is the most problematic of any DAC’s inputs. We attempt to connect our noisiest appliance, the computer, to our most sensitive, the DAC, and hope for great results. We’re often disappointed. LANRover is a breakthrough…

“Kick-ass dynamics and a richness…” John Darko, publisher of Digital Audio Review, writes of DirectStream Junior, “”Kick-ass dynamics and a richness that tops a slight hint of caffeination with a short layer of cream“. The review, entitled Digital Audio Comes Of Age With PS Audio’s DirectStream Junior, is ready for you to read and savor….

BHK Signature Preamp Ships The long awaited mate to the BHK Signature Power Amplifiers, the BHK Preamplifier is finally shipping out the door. The beta group are the first to leave and, if all goes according to plan, the next batch will be hand signed units shipping a month later (a few reservations are still…

ONE Sonoma Music Released Finally! After nearly a year of work the ONE Music project is ready. And it turned out great. In fact, it is the single best demo disc I have in my library – bar none. If you haven’t heard of the project and why we started it, let me tell you….

Our best phono stage ever $1899 now just $999 NuWave Phono, better known as just the NPC, is our best analog phono stage ever. And now, it’s available at nearly half its original price. So, what’s up? We’re closing out this wonderful piece of gear to make room for a new one (though the new one…

DirectStream Junior I couldn’t be happier. After two years of work by DirectStream designer Ted Smith, and the engineering team at PS Audio, we released DirectStream Junior – all new, based on its famous progenitor. DSJ uses the identical FPGA and upgradeable code as DirectStream, but in a slimmer chassis with a stepped attenuator for the volume rather than…

Renovation madness PS Audio’s in a really nice facility nestled up against the Flatirons, but it’s getting on in age (who among us isn’t?). Time for renovation. Nothing huge, new flooring, paint, lighting and ceiling tiles. The problem is we can’t send everyone home for a month while the workers tear the place apart. It’s a problem…

Merry Christmas I like much about Christmas: Family, friends, good moods, gifts, good cheer, dinners, happy grandkids, and the first snows. For the PS Audio family we do our best to have fun and give in the spirit of the holidays. Terri and Ashton organized a gingerbread house decorating contest and we put the phones on hold,…

Happy Thanksgiving In much of North America November’s the month we celebrate Thanksgiving. For some it’s eating a lot of food, others, a time of family, friends, good cheer, reflection, or all of the above. Our friend Seth Godin had an idea for a new tradition. He published a free reader filled with stories of inspiration,…

“Happy” October I am not sure about October. At least not in this hemisphere. We’re facing the return of goblins, witches and pumpkins–and cold weather is coming too. Leaves have turned colors, many have fallen. The nights are longer, the morning’s darker with winter’s approach–good for skiers and skaters, not so much for sun and warmth….

Sprout now $499 Scott McGowan, creator of Sprout, always wanted the price to be within reach of his peer group. When first envisioned the perfect price for this all-in-one high-end music system was $399, a dream dashed quickly when we added up the initial bill of materials. Over the three-year-long development process we kept upgrading…

Listening rooms Customers send us photo of their system and they are a joy to receive. Most are lower quality photos taken with mobile devices, though no less interesting or appreciated because of it. Keep ’em coming. But once in a while we get lucky, like this shot from Bruce Jodar of Bozeman Montana. When…

PS Audio July, 2015 Newsletter Yale released Residents of Buena Vista, Colorado, are eager to correct newcomers mistakenly enunciating the town name in proper Spanish. They will proudly tell you it is, instead, “Boona Vista.” But pronunciations aside, their town sits in the shadow of one of Colorado’s most beautiful ‘fourteeners,’ Mount Yale. And that is…

  Munich was awesome but not without pain. Every year in May the PS crew loads up and flies to the Munich high end show. This year we introduced the BHK Signature stereo power amplifier to Europeans and the reaction was great. But setup was a nightmare.The first trouble started the day before the show. We…

NuWave DSD Released What product uncovers treasure long buried in CDs, plays DSD files, has an I2S input, and helps music from any digital source come alive? The NuWave DSD, our latest DAC. Affordable, beautiful and great sounding, this newest addition is built in Boulder, designed by a brilliant engineer and begins shipping today.The NuWave…

Details on the BHK released Here’s a riddle. What’s the most important electronic piece we almost never think of? (Hint: it’s the last stop in the chain where everything funnels into). It is the power amplifier. It sits quietly without benefit of an interface, requires nothing more than power and good cables to connect, yet has more of…

PS Audio March 2015 Newsletter Montreal Show Montreal is a great city and my only complaint is the cold. Much of Canada is still in winter’s grip and the short walk from my hotel to the Bonaventure, where the show was being held, was a cold one.We took the new BHK Signature power amplifier on…