I saw an ad for PS Audio's Stellar earlier today. After reading, I thought, "hey this seems neat & interesting!" I did a search to look for internal pictures; I like to see the engineering that goes into stuff. Plus, I was curious; from the product descriptions, it sounds like they use transconductance stages (like at least one other company does) to avoid performing volume control using the usual signal attenuation pots. To do that well requires very good attention to lots of circuit design details, especially power supply impacts. So, I was disappointed to see potted modules. Next, I say "Oh well, let's see who's tested it and what they think..." I like reading test results, including ASR's so was pleased to see that amirm had tested it. I took a look and was a little disappointed again to see the results. But then, I looked at quite a bit of the discussion afterwards. Yes, I'm an engineer too; all I can say is "Wow" ....