Topic: PS Audio DirectStream DAC

[AndrewC]

PS Audio’s upcoming flagship “Obsidian TSS” DAC

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ANmy_87TZFs&fs=1" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/ANmy_87TZFs&fs=1</a>


ps: POF cable interconnect between the boxes?! Seriously??

[Audio]

Not surprised that they used optics between the boxes.  Fiber really improves things.

(Audio)

[AndrewC]

Not surprised that they used optics between the boxes.  Fiber really improves things.

(Audio)

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my post yesterday
 
POF is pretty lame IMHO… only marginally better than TOSLink at a physical level and has limited bandwidth... certainly not worthy of a supposed flagship design. That said, seems the TSS is designed to a maximum of 11Mbps (DSD256) between boxes, so perhaps good enough?  IMHO it would have been far better to implement an industry standard SFP port and let end-customers decide whether they want to use an SFP module for Fibre, Glass/Plastic, MM/SM, or even Copper or Coax, etc., rather than this low-end POF Duplex connector;

[Audio]

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my post yesterday
 
POF is pretty lame IMHO… only marginally better than TOSLink at a physical level and has limited bandwidth... certainly not worthy of a supposed flagship design. That said, seems the TSS is designed to a maximum of 11Mbps (DSD256) between boxes, so perhaps good enough?  IMHO it would have been far better to implement an industry standard SFP port and let end-customers decide whether they want to use an SFP module for Fibre, Glass/Plastic, MM/SM, or even Copper or Coax, etc., rather than this low-end POF Duplex connector;

I agree with you.

(Audio)