Item Condition: Ex-Demo - Excellent condition
Shipping Options: Pickup available and you can audition.,Shipping is included in price.
Suburb or Town: Douglas HiFi Perth
State: WA
Payment Method: Dir Dep, Eftpos, Visa, master, Amex
Reason for selling: new model has arrived
Further Information:
The PS Audio DirectStream DSD DAC offers award-winning performance at a special clearance price. This ex-demo unit is a one-time opportunity for audiophiles to get a powerhouse. We are keen to help someone out there get into this amazing sounding AC and have dropped the price and thrown in free shipping.
Being an ex-demo unit this comes with full 3 yrs warranty
DAC with Bridge2 HiRes streaming card included.
Enjoy superior audio quality with this unbeatable deal. Our shop floor unit is only around 6 months old and still has the protective plastic layer on the top plate so will present as new once that is removed. As we have now received our stock of the replacement Directstream v2 model we can offer this one (full 3yrs warranty and all original box etc.) for a clearance price.
The Directstream DAC is powered by an FPGA chip and custom software rather than an off the shelf solution. This has enabled the team at PS Audio to program a 66bit FIR filter sequence to up convert every PCM signal to 10x DSD to ensure smooth, warm analogue type sound with oodles of detail and a massive soundstage.
Converting PCM to DSD can be an easy exercise using any number of computer software programs. Converting PCM to DSDproperly,and in such a way as to reveal missing details in the music, is a serious technical challenge. To handle this properly DirectStream utilizes 66-bit fixed-point FIR filters, eliminates headroom issues common to PCM, flattens noise response in the 20-100kHz region, uses coefficients optimized for best sound rather than faster processing speed and optimizes hardware-specific operations not possible in software. Unlike other processors available today, DirectStream unifies all inputs (PCM or DSD) at 10 x DSD, then uses a true single-bit double-rate DSD core engine. True DSD core engines (compared to the standard multibit Sigma-Delta converters followed by random lower quality multibit converters) offer advantages in simplicity, linearity, and in analog-like overload characteristics that avoid PCM’s hard clipping potential and a PCM processor’s propensity to mask subtle details.
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