PS Audio has developed HiFi for more than 40 years, starting the career with a phono stage back in 1973. The manufacturer has moved from Santa Maria in California to the city Boulder in Colorado. Amplifiers and RIAA - stages have been essential products, while the product line in recent years have been dominated by products with digital technology.

Nuwave DSD is a further development of Nuwave, and obtains technology from the reference model DirectStream. It is hand-tuned by Paul McGowan. The cabinet is handcrafted in a combination of aluminum and steel, based on Direct Stream's construction.

One of the big news is that Nuwave DSD has implemented an I2S - input. This is a protocol that fetches signal in a CD - plays its native format, where music data and clock signal is split. In contrast to S/PDIF, where the clock and music data are merged.

To use I2S input it is required a player with similar output, and here comes the PS Audio's relatively newly launched Perfect Wave Memory Player into play, a combined CD and DVD player that also has other technological innovations.

PS Audio Nuwave is full asynchronous via USB and I2S, and it is also through these inputs the DAC is capable of playing DSD.

DAC chip in Nuwave is 32-bit ESS Sabre Hyperstream, followed by passive filters that PS Audio claim have better sound than the commonly usedactive filters. In addition to the aforementioned USB - and I2S - input there is an optical and a coax digital input. The output is fully balanced with XLR-connections, as well as RCA.

Distributor in Norway is Audio Media.

Read more about Nuwave DSD at PS Audio

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