Anything wrong with PS Audio DirectStream DACs?

If you want to run directly to your amps, one thing to be careful of with the DS is the relatively low output voltage.  I don't have a pre and that was a problem for me.  During my demo I had to use it on the high voltage setting and still ran out of range if I wanted to listen loudly.  The noise floor also becomes much more evident when listening on that setting.  

Nothing to do with Direct Stream specifically ... just lack overall understanding of firmware.

does the PS Audio unit look bad in shorts?

audiotroy....the DS dac’s hardware is still,and always has been, a top notch design. Ted Smith is not the dummy you seem to think he is...It has been favorably compared sonically to units twice the price and has over the last five years received a tremendous amount of “over the top reviews” from some of the best rags in the industry in which a lot of reviewers have used it as their reference.

The dac’s you keep mentioning that you carry are way more expensive than the DS. So to have you make that comparison speaks volumes of the sonic greatness of the DS or you wouldn’t keep bringing it up...

And because you are clueless as to what Teds firmware updates accomplish...each successive update Ted implements in his dac...reduces jitter(and noise floor)to the point of making a great sounding dac design sound better then the previous one... Get over yourself!!!