Sorry Amir but you are wrong

[egellings]

I think that living room audio electronics design is a solved problem. There's nothing new under the sun. All competent amplifiers should sound the same in a given setting. Since grifters gonna grift, they invent new 'problems' that they then happily sell a solution for. Cables are a good breeding ground for these types, since cables are cheap (izz cheep!) & easy to make, and you don't need to know anything about electronics to make & sell them along with preposterous and unproven claims about their performance. It's basically audio homeopathy.

 

[joeren]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but our beloved Amir is wrong.I just watched this video by Paul McSnakeoil and he has explained in his terms how and why his Box of stuff works and your review,coupled to the fact according to Paul you either didn't know how or what you were measuring or was faulty,he couldn't tell either (his words),well I'm afraid you are wrong.Back to Uni for you.

Oh my!

 

[fragzone]

I am not the biggest fan of Zeos but I realized Paul was kind of a shady dude when he uploaded a video at his room at an audio convention. Zeos blatantly asked him to blur his face but Paul uploaded it in full HD no blurring at all. There was also this seething distaste that I could sense emanating from Paul during his discussions with him, probably mad that Zeos is one of the proponents of the notion that spending thousands on expensive dacs is futile.

 

[noiseangel]

PS Audio. Now in damage control.

 

[MalinYamato]

PS Audio. Now in damage control.

is this video a response to Amirs review with attempts to tell us that his stuff indeed work.

 

[SimpleTheater]

It could be pretty much anyone that hasn't been lucky enough to stumble across a decent objective review.

Amir's measurements suggest that PS Audio's top of the line DAC is no better than some dongle DACs costing less than a hundredth of the price, yet here it is in Stereophile's list of recommended components in the top, A+ tier:

Recommended Components Fall 2021 Edition Digital Processors

Digital Processors Editor's Note: The sound of any particular CD transport/digital processor combination will be dependent on the datalink used-see "Bits is Bits?" by Christopher Dunn and Malcolm Omar Hawksford, Stereophile, March 1996, Vol.19 No.3 (WWW). Unless mentioned, processors are limited...

www.stereophile.com

Wow! I followed the link and read "There have followed three additional, successive firmware upgrades; in 2017, the most recent of these, named Huron, impressed JCA as "a clear improvement over [its immediate predecessor], which was already very good."

A "clear improvement" - that's their words not mine. Yet the original review stated "Time will tell if and when these levels of performance, flexibility, and luxury will become available for less than $6000. But today, for those who've waited for a computer-friendly DAC that offers, with every type of music file, the best musicality of which DSD is capable, the PerfectWave DirectStream may be in a class by itself."

This is exactly the issue I have with these magazines. A product goes from "a class by itself" - at the $6,000 price class no less, to releasing a firmware update to being clearly improved.

 

[MalinYamato]

Is this the way to go in order to "hear the drums" in my phones?

 

[joeren]

is this video a response to Amirs review with attempts to tell us that his stuff indeed work.

A simplistic bench experiment, to show that the PS12 regulates it’s output isn’t the point. The point is weather it can make an improvement in the output/sound quality of audio equipment. If you’re driving your power amp to it’s maximum output, you may eek out an addition watt or two, using the PS12. So what. Amir’s deep dive into the performance benefits/or lack of, proves it has zero impact on sound quality. I don’t see any utility for this product.

 

[Doodski]

A simplistic bench experiment, to show that the PS12 regulates it’s output isn’t the point. The point is weather it can make an improvement in the output/sound quality of audio equipment. If you’re driving your power amp to it’s maximum output, you may eek out an addition watt or two, using the PS12. So what. Amir’s deep dive into the performance benefits/or lack of, proves it has zero impact on sound quality. I don’t see any utility for this product.

I was thinking the same thing. It's splitting hairs for a little more rail voltage if a linear supply and tiny tiny fraction of a db louder if splitting hairs again. Any sane independent technician or a engineer can figure this out and I suspect the engineer in that video knows this but he's playing along with Paul.

 

[KellenVancouver]

I was thinking the same thing. It's splitting hairs for a little more rail voltage if a linear supply and tiny tiny fraction of a db louder if splitting hairs again. Any sane independent technician or a engineer can figure this out and I suspect the engineer in that video knows this but he's playing along with Paul.

"Playing along with Paul" is that a euphemism? Otherwise known as deception? Lack of integrity? Dishonesty?

 

[egellings]

Likely the engineer is paid to give high marks to the product.

 

[iMickey503]

People grow up with many traditions and customs. Audio in many respects is no different.
If it makes you feel good having a Klingon Power plant? So be it.

 

[Longshan]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but our beloved Amir is wrong.I just watched this video by Paul McSnakeoil and he has explained in his terms how and why his Box of stuff works and your review,coupled to the fact according to Paul you either didn't know how or what you were measuring or was faulty,he couldn't tell either (his words),well I'm afraid you are wrong.Back to Uni for you.

Learned some new technical terms that I shall henceforth use when giving a scientifically accurate description of how electricity works:

"Oompf."

"Dude"

"Whoah!"

 

[egellings]

The sort of words I use after accidentally personally conducting a few dozen milliamps' worth of the stuff.

 

[Spkrdctr]

The sort of words I use after accidentally personally conducting a few dozen milliamps' worth of the stuff.

That is the TRUTH!!

 

[Holmz]

If you know that it's a Klingon Power plant, and it really is a Klingon Power plant, then I agree totally. However, if you're led to believe it's something that it's not, then I disagree ..... totally. Jim

You cold have signed it Captain Kirk, but using Jim got me there.

 

[theREALdotnet]

If you know that it's a Klingon Power plant, and it really is a Klingon Power plant

I’m not too sure about that, actually. It just looks too square for that. With Klingon gear you’d expect more triangular or hexagonal shapes and angles…

 

[airgas1998]

"flat and lifeless sound"..well I'll be a son of b....i knew something was off with my gear. hey thanks, Paul...

 

[Katji]

That's a good one to add to the comments there. [Although i suppose some would take it seriously.]

 

[panther]

This brought a smile to my face just for the cheese factor. My second thought was dang I need power conditioners for my Tesla coils in Command and Conquer Red Alert.