Anything wrong with PS Audio DirectStream DACs?

Yes Lilchris I’m totally sponsored.

I’m waiting for my full set of HV series T+A gear to show up any day now after that sick post on Audiogon.

Fostex is throwing in some TH 909’s as well!  😉

I think PS Audio is a great company but I’m just being real and trying to cut through 5 years of hype, Directstream ain’t all that.  

IMHO, The Direct Stream with the latest firmware is all that!

ozzy

Different systems, different ears, ymmv. Good things to remember whatever your experience with a particular piece of gear.  

That's one nice thing about some of the other sites where people have signatures on their posts that lists the full music chain.  Helps you evaluate how well their experience will transfer to your system.

Ozzy chasing firmware is rather a sad indictment of a design.

A mature design shouldn’t require or necessisate a constant every six month new magic firmware in order to upgrade the sound quality.

Either you have a design figured out or you don’t.

Compare the PS audio company to Chord.

Chord’s Robert Watts came up with his trasients time aligned filtering design many years ago with the QBD 76. All of Chords future dacs all were based on more filter taps, due to improved hardware, his filtering designs and concepts remained the same.

We are much more in favor of hardware based upgrades as you can do much more by changing hardware.

One of our dacs is completely hardware upgradable and an original dac that is five years old can be competely brought up to modern standards for far less than trading it in and starting over.

There is only so much you can fix with firmware and in reality you shouldnt have to.

If you pick a design, its voicing and technlogy you need to have a constant vision of what your product is supposed to be only features based on new sources that weren’t available should be the norm.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ