Nothing turns people off of audio electronics quite like complexity. If you want to make absolutely certain your audio product never sees the inside of more than a few hundred homes, just give it more ...

Imagine a full-blown, high-end integrated stereo amp -- shrunk down to the size of a small book -- voilà, it's PS Audio's Sprout! Steve Guttenberg Former contributor Ex-movie theater projectionist ...

The PS Audio Stellar Strata stumbles slightly with a wonky app but there is no question that it delivers a “Stellar” musical performance. Fellow former herb enthusiast, Paul McGowan, and his merry ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

PS Audio’s DirectStream MK2 DAC/Preamplifier up converts all digital audio signals to pure DSD and then to analog. Is this method better? Only your ears know that answer. The DirectStream DAC MK2 ...

In 2015, we took a look at PS Audio’s Sprout digital integrated amplifier and liked what we saw, or rather, what we heard. The company managed to squeeze an awful lot of features into a small package ...

I suspect a substantial number of people have an old pair of speakers sitting in storage: hand-me-downs from a family member, perhaps, or the remnants of a stereo of their youth. Such speakers can be ...

Most audiophiles and enthusiasts have grown up with at least a basic understanding of what an amplifier does. It takes a tiny alternating electrical signal that represents the moment-to-moment ...