PS Audio Direct Stream

This is a 30 minute discussion by PS Audio on their new Direct Stream DAC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRg-Rrd2blY

Paul describes some brief history of the project and Ted Smith, Technical Designer, provides a review of the technology. It is very interesting.

I believe there is a Chicago show starting today and the Direct steam will be on display. Hopefully, some reviews will come out of that. It is odd though that with all of the PS audio claims, there are no actual user reviews.

Ozzy, they are just shipping them so that is way no user reviews. Unless you count the one or two of the beta/alpha testers that are also users.

PS Audio has been claiming that the first units have been shipped since mid April. Even the PS Audio Newsletter states all of the first 100 have been shipped.
I know it is still early, but surely someone has opened the box and tried it by now...

upsample to 10X DSD? WOW. For $6K it's pricey - but I just purchased a Cary preamp for $3K and PSaudio recommends going directly in the amp from the DAC. This puts my net cost at $3K if I go without the Cary pre.

A big gamble since I won't be able to hear it first. But if the Sony HAPZ1 is any indication of the sound improvement possible from up sampling to DSD (never mind 10X DSD) along with the reputation of PSAudio - this might not be such a big game after all. Just wish there were some reviews on it.