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I love my PS Audio Direct Stream with Red Cloud :)

Yesterday, PS Audio released the Red Cloud FPGA software written by MIT genius Ted Smith.

With immense delight, I auditioned all through the night.

The beauty exceeds what were my wildest expectations when I purchased the DAC several years ago, and reconfirmed that I had made another good choice (my previous good choices include Tannoy 15" DC speakers, Cary SLP05 preamp, Art Audio Jota HC monoblocks, Wavelength Cardinal monoblocks, Cardas Clear cables, Acoustic Zen reference cables, Wyred4Sound server, PS Audio Premier Power Plant, inexpensive HDMI cable, and ceramic corn dishes.

While I haven't heard a great many DACs, I have heard static-state Sabre DACs, which sound ear-bleeding mediocre IME, and R2R chips which were the thing 20+ years ago. I think that FPGA Red Cloud is superior, and the best thing aesthetically to have come from a scientist educated at MIT. Make music, not war.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with PS Audio, except as a happy customer. It's just a great company!


jburidan

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aolmrd1241
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A recent post from... richfield_hunter from the...   "Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD" 

"I have to put a plug in here for the the Bricasti M1 SE and most recently the PS Audio DS with the new Red Cloud firmware which get closer to the Davinci in SQ than they ought to considering the price difference."

Pretty impressive company for the PS Audio dac. 
aolmrd1241
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Ted Smith nailed this Redcloud OS. Listen to any well recorded cd/sacd and be amazed at the lifelike sound quality achieved by a ’non-hardware’ upgrade no less. And what is really spooky about all this is that Mr.Smith has already stated that he can and will get better results with the DS dac in pending future firmware updates.

And all this for FREE!!! Wow and double Wow!!!

Bring on the future...its looking very bright for all DS owners.

PS...The DMP transport is the icing on the cake.




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