when I kept reading the industry reviews about how all of the multiple new updates of the PS DirectStream DAC were all improving its sound so dramatically and marvelously...
Ted Smith is the designer behind this DAC (a software guy who used to work at Microsoft the same time I was, turned hardware designer)
It doesn't look like he finished his degree program. This is from the bottom up of his experience/education on LinkedIn:He may have been a software guy at Microsoft but he is also an Electrical Engineer, studying CS & EE at MIT...
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That is just three years at MIT and doesn't indicate a degree.
It doesn't look like he finished his degree program.
It is a very common technique on resumes (and on LinkedIn) when you have not finished the degree program. You list the years and name of the university but don't put in, "BS in Electrical Engineering, BSCS, etc." Here is mine in contrast:It says "EE/CS"...
4 years, if you start at start of 76 and finish end of 79...
What makes you think this? Something in the LinkedIn that you screenshot?
I think, nontransparency is part of the business model for PS audio and many other manufacturerers. It sounds different, costs much money, therefore it's better. Had a PS audio HCA-2 power amp, back in the day. Reviewers stated: "Finally a non tube design that sounds like tubes".
Well, It had an agressive treble and a volumious and undifferentiated bottom end. Came through on everey recording. Measurements? Well they were poor to say the least. High distorition escpecially in the treble region and very low damping factor.
studying CS & EE at MIT.
Appart from all their BS marketing: Chord ElectronicsMan do people really do serious DACs implemented with FPGAs ? Just doesn't add up to me...
It's funny how consistent the response is to these reviews, that is when they show up issues like this one has ....
I worked with an MIT CS graduate some years ago, and the guy wasn't anything exceptional. So if you're putting that out there as some sort of indication of excellence, it's not in my experience - If they can get passing marks on the courses, they get the degree. It's just that simple, nothing more and nothing less.
I worked with an MIT CS graduate some years ago, and the guy wasn't anything exceptional. So if you're putting that out there as some sort of indication of excellence, it's not in my experience - If they can get passing marks on the courses, they get the degree. It's just that simple, nothing more and nothing less.
Anyway, I don't see the point to talk about the guy himself and his degrees...You're jumping to too many conclusions. Ignore the MIT part (if that helps)...
Amir: "Ted Smith is the designer behind this DAC (a software guy who used to work at Microsoft the same time I was, turned hardware designer)"
Me: "He may have been a software guy at Microsoft but he is also an Electrical Engineer, studying CS & EE"
Nothing more, nothing less....
https://forum.psaudio.com/t/cost-no-object-edition-of-ds-dac/6066/28