Major upgrade is free Reactions to Pike Sprout winner announced! Failed music revolution Learn how to listen Fourplay Horns, Part 1 Major upgrade is free By the looks of the headline we’re giving away a free upgrade to freeze your tush off on top of a mountain like the two folks shivering on this bench….

January 2015 PS Audio Newsletter It’s a new year Win a pair of Aon 3 loudspeakers BHK Signature Amp progress All about power supplies Why music lovers are turning to vinyl Audiophiles vs. audioworkers and *** Magnificati It’s a new year We start off each new year with high hopes and expectations for a great…

  A 2014 thought It’s at this time we reflect on the events of the past year. For many cultures, including ours, the year ends in a few days and the new one begins. Every culture I am familiar with has a yearly ending and beginning although the dates may differ. For example, Chinese New…

  When Thanksgiving was weird Author Linton Weeks tells a great story you don’t read often about Thanksgiving on NPR. “People — young and old — got all dressed up and staged costumed crawls through the streets. In Los Angeles, Chicago and other places around the country, newspapers ran stories of folks wearing elaborate masks…

  27 year new speaker Thanks to Herb Reichert from Stereophile for this great photo of the PS Audio room at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, better known simply as RMAF. The room was packed all three days and we had a blast saying hello to the community. Coolest of all were the 27-year-new loudspeakers…

  A new DAC We’ve just released what I call ‘a new DAC’. Ted Smith designed new firmware for DirectStream that takes one of the best DACS in the world into another orbit; placing it in a very special category of rarefied air. And any owner of DirectStream can upgrade today, for free. Here’s the…

  Almost killed me I’ve mentioned before that summer always finds Terri and I on some hike amongst the streams and wildflowers abundant in Colorado. This time the hike nearly killed me. Terri decided we were going to tackle a big one: a very famous hike starting in Aspen Colorado and 11 miles and 4,000…

  Summer activities Terri and I always enjoy summers in Colorado. To be honest, I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be. The evenings are warm enough the crickets sing their songs, yet cooling down so you can sleep after 10 P.M.. On the weekends we hike; our last at Lake Isabelle in the Indian Peaks…

  DirectStream kit availability We are delighted to let you know we are again taking reservations for DirectStream Kits. The kits that convert any PerfectWave DAC (PWD) into a full-fledged DirectStream DSD, are again available, but there aren’t many. If you’ve ordered one through your dealer or distributor, they should be receiving it shortly. If…

  Munich video released Scott McGowan and I travelled to Munich Germany for the 2014 High End Audio show.  As promised, I shot another video for you and added a pretty cool soundtrack you can enjoy while watching.  If you’re familiar with our videos, they’re fun, you get to see a great view of the…

April’s newsletter is packed full of news: new website, DirectStream ships, defining product registration, building a music server and essays on “Do recordings kill music?” and “Will we ever run out of music?”. Music articles include Franz Liszt and the Manhattan Transfer.

I suppose by now you’ve probably heard the big news I promised last month?

After nearly a five year run with the PerfectWave DAC, it’s time to retire the old girl and bring in her replacement. It’s called DirectStream.

DirectStream is not an upgrade to the PWD, but an entirely new and revolutionary product that has already set the high-end world abuzz.

On March 1st we’re going to shake up the world of high-end audio. In a big way.

If you’d like to join in the speculation of what we’re about to announce, you can start with this quote from one of the lucky few who have heard it:

“But… the real show stopper was a new component that will set your system on it’s ear. ……

It’s the start of the new year for most of us already, although our friends in China will be celebrating their new year starting this Friday. So it’s time to focus on all the good things we can accomplish this new year and hopefully music and getting our systems to sound their best are among them. I know they are for me.

It’s that time of year again when everything draws to a close and we start reflecting on our year’s past. On Wednesday it’s 2014. We hope all of you and yours have a wonderful new year and get everything you want in life.

Happy holidays to you and your families. This is a great time of year as the seasons change, snow starts falling here in Colorado and we get ready for the big festivals and feasts shared all over the world in recognition of the changing year.
It’s a great time and we wish you and yours a healthy, happy holiday.

Every year in October the Colorado Audio Society puts on one of the biggest consumer high-end shows in the country, the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) and we were there meeting our friends and making new ones. You can see a picture of the room we were in.

By now most all of you have heard of the devastating floods in Colorado, the worst of which hit outlying areas close to Boulder but not actually in Boulder. Don’t get me wrong it was scary enough in Boulder with the sirens blaring and announcements of impending doom going all night. Here’s a picture I took the day after the worst that hit Boulder roared through. This used to be the athletic field at Boulder High School.

I started out last month’s newsletter telling you that Terri and I were headed out to parts north of Boulder to enjoy some hiking and a few days off.
I think we may have found one of the prettiest spots ever – Lake Louise near Banff Canada. Here’s a shot I took with my phone – it was simply amazing.

If you’ve ever been a Zappa fan you’ll know where Terri and I are heading out to for a vacation tomorrow. We’re also going to be visiting Glacier National Park then on to Banff Canada for a few days of R and R.

Welcome to June’s PS Audio Newsletter. If you happened to have called the office today and the phone’s didn’t get answered, I apologize for that. We were all enjoying the annual PS Audio summer picnic and water fest at a local park here in Boulder.

We’ve been putting a lot of videos together as of late and you’ve been very kind with your support and viewership. Thanks, they’re fun to do. We built a YouTube channel that contains all the videos we publish and for those of you interested, you can click here to subscribe and get notification whenever we post a new video you might enjoy.

What in the world does bread have to do with Power Plants? Well, as many of you know I am a bread snob – eating only crusty artisan breads relative to the nasty packaged cake bread types I used to eat as a kid and, I am also an audio snob, satisfied only when everything in my system sounds right.