Review and Measurements of PS Audio PerfectWave DirectStream DAC

[Human Bass]

Purchased the Gustard X 26 xlr dac which lies number six from the top of the SINAD list because I was so impressed with Amir's review.
Now, I will get to sell off my PS Audio DSD MKI and get some extra money.
Didn't work out after 6 weeks. The Gustard didn't generate the bouncing waves of music coming towards engulfing me or feeling the earth move below my feet. In other words the thrilling actions are very limited. However, the Gustard carries way more clarity.
So I am back where I started.

You are expecting something that no dac can provide. What really makes the sound is the speaker/headphone.

 

[Count Dacula]

A few pages into this, way after the fact, and I think how this shows the perils of being an early adopter.

Someone WANTS this PoS Audio thing to be really good, or just wants to have really good sound available, so they bite down pretty hard on audio generalities, catch phrases and name-dropping. It all makes a curiously strong case for a multitude of Cognitive Biases. It's not appropriate to expand on them now, but we know it when we see it.

I really wouldn't know where to begin on anything less than a Doctoral level.

List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For common errors in logic, see List of fallacies.
Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics.[1]
Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible research,[2][3] there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to explain them.[4] Several theoretical causes are known for some cognitive biases, which provides a classification of biases by their common generative mechanism (such as noisy information-processing[5]). Gerd Gigerenzer has criticized the framing of cognitive biases as errors in judgment, and favors interpreting them as arising from rational deviations from logical thought.[6]
Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold") bias, such as mental noise,[5] or motivational ("hot") bias, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking. Both effects can be present at the same time.[7][8]

or simply...

 

[evanft]

With this infinite supply of huge and material differences, progress must really be moving fast in the shed.

The last discussion I had of PS Audio was arguing with someone (here) who said PS Audio couldn't afford a Klippel. Amazing what they do on a constrained budget over there.

PS (so to speak): Will the next one be called "Mount Hyperbole"?

Bruh a literal YouTube reviewer, Erin's Audio Corner, has one. Surely someone who sells $7k DACs that perform worse than a $10 Apple dongle can afford one.

 

[MediumRare]

Bruh a literal YouTube reviewer, Erin's Audio Corner, has one. Surely someone who sells $7k DACs that perform worse than a $10 Apple dongle can afford one.

If they bought one they’d instantly be liable for fraud for knowingly making false statements. When it’s a personal opinion they can get away with it.

 

[ahofer]

Bruh a literal YouTube reviewer, Erin's Audio Corner, has one. Surely someone who sells $7k DACs that perform worse than a $10 Apple dongle can afford one.

You did detect the sarcasm?

 

[evanft]

You did detect the sarcasm?

I have a PS Audio Sarcasm Detector, so no it probably wasn't working right.