Thanks for the video. I would love to see more PS Audio product reviewed. Especially, the Stellar phono stage and BHK amps and preamps.

Thank you for another informative video!

bump up the playback speed to 1.25x and you dramatically reduce the urge to nod... great info. i appreciate your perspective on PSA gear. i love mine.

You can get to your destination lots of different ways. Some like the scenic route and others like the highway. As long as you enjoyed the journey is all that matters. At the end of the day the numbers don’t matter - if you love what you’re hearing mission accomplished. Thanks for taking the time to analyze and share your opinions.

Thanks for this video. Really enjoyed it. I have the Directstream and I think that Sunlight sounds great. Adds a thick, rich, mid-bass along with a more detailed top end. I’ve listened for hours and although I haven’t gone back and forth with Windom, I definitely think I like it more than Windom. I hope someday to visit your store but I’m in California so it may be a while!

Great review of Sunlight vs Windom, I love my Direct Stream DAC. Looking forward to your comparison of the P20 vs Niagara 7000. Would be particularly interested in your thoughts on connecting large mono blocks (McIntosh ideally) to one or the other or directly to wall power. Thanks for all your work!

Thanks for a great comparison between the two PS Audio DirectStream DAC FPGA updates. Those FPGAs are amazing when you can reprogram them and end up with a different type of sound. I live in New Zealand and hope to have the PS Audio PerfectWave SACD transport and the DAC by Christmas although I have too admit I think it's going to be a tight squeeze. They were paid for in late October and ordered in early November.

Yes! Another video from Adrian and Villip!!

Thanks for that good video! A couple of things: 1. I have two systems. One is powered by a PSA P20. The other is powered by a P12. I also have Niagara 1200 on the same system as the P12. I am a big fan of PS Audio and the PowerPlants. To be fair I also have some Shunyata Research PS8s with Defenders in both systems. 2. I also have a DS DAC. I too need to go back to it and listen again to Windom and then update to Sunlight and do the same. I think it is a good idea for DS DAC owners to download all the firmware variations and keep them in your computer file so you have them and it then truly turns your one physical DAC into several.

I only recently came across this channel and am enjoying the witty repartee very much. Adrian and Vilip are my favorite father and son duo in audio since David (RIP) and Daryl Wilson!

Are you guys testing the latest one that says "PerfectWave DirectStream DAC" on the face, or the older model that says "PerfectWave Analog to Digital Converter" on the face?

I am curious - what is the power cable? Interconnects? Speaker cables? and did you use the Is2 preferred PS Audio connection between the DAC and CD player? or did you stream through what products? Was inputs in balance mode? Always watch your videos!

Go to 9:03 to hear only about Windom vs Sunlight firmware.

Soooo…. What’s the chance we’ll get a comparison btwn the sunlight w the ps audio SACD transport, and the mc2700 w the McIntosh SACD transport? This is where the rubber meets the road.

It nice to see something other Macintosh lol. Maybe a different speaker system.

How well does the DS pair with SS preamps and amps? Seems it fares better with tubes?

Please do a review of PS Audio's M1200 Monoblocks!? Please please please!

NICE !!!! So if this is PSAudio's last firmware update to their superb DAC, is there a brand new one coming out in the future ? FPGA is a great call by Paul. Just rewrite the software and its all new! P.S. What's with the Apogee speakers behind you ? Is that the Grand ??? They are gorgeous!

First, Ted Smith has mentioned that once Sunlight is installed, the DAC should be left playing music for about 100 hours. The reason he states is because the new firmware is using areas in the FPGA that are not being used before. You can check that on the PS Audio blog. After I installed Sunlight I gave it a try immediately and, although I liked it, I decided to wait and left the DAC running for several days. The improvement was big. I found it to be more liquid, detailed, denser, but not as forward as your review implies. Voices sound glorious. I listened to female and male vocals and they sounded more natural. Breathing was more apparent. Choirs were very detailed, with individual voices and with an enhanced perspective. Pianos sound very realistic, with the hammers striking the strings and the resonance of the piano's wood enclosure. In some recordings I was able to hear the fingers as they struck the keys. String instruments sound much like the real thing. Violins, violas, cellos and bass sound like string instruments with a wooden enclosure. The resonance of the wood is very apparent in cellos and basses. One thing that surprised me is the breathing of the wind instruments performers, even in and orchestra. If this is a harbinger of future things to come, I will definitely give the next generation PS Audio DAC serious consideration. Keep the good work. I like your reviews a lot.

In light of the interview with Garth Powell, would love to watch a review of Audioquest Niagara power conditioners versus PS Audio Power Regenerators (the Niagara 5000 vs P15 or Niagara 7000 vs P20). Thanks for the awesome videos!

why is this the last firmware update from Ted for DS product?

PS Audio vs McIntosh systems faceoff coming soon!

Probably depends on your system, but Sunlight is too forward in your face. Watching tv, the voices seemed forced, a lot less imaging and soundstage. Powered by a P12 power plant, with my Directstream dac Jr. and Windom, I have a pure black background with a superb 3D soundstage and very detailed but smooth. With Sunlight, it's not brighter, it keeps the nice analog tone, but seemed forced foward, , switched back to Windom that same day. A nice achievement from PS Audio to evolve the sound from these DAC's, but Sunlight won't be for everyone, but at least we get to choose.

Shame you don't stock Chord TT2... would be very interesting how it compared with Directstream running Sunlight. Nobody posts comparisons on these two.

Hi guys my name is Shane I'm from Victoria Australia in a place called Geelong I'm a massive fan of your videos

8 grand lol must be nice to have a endless supply of money lol.I will stick with my Bat tube cd player and stream in my toliet.

The issue with the Audioquest interviews for me was that it seemed like an advertisement 100% - just an opportunity for Audioquest to have a stage to pontificate about their philosophy their product, their wonderfulness and brilliance and insight - just highly tedious and bereft of educational value. You gave them a forum for mouthing all their sound bites. Therefore I found it disappointing as I assign you guys at Audio Excellence as people with insight and integrity and earnest opinion and I felt like you diminished yourselves to a small extent by giving them a platform for their dog and pony show, notwithstanding whether or not their products have value and worth. Basically, for me, it was like watching a carnival barker given free range over your wonderful KZfaq channel.

They do look like printer though!!! ;-)

I would be very disappointed if a software update made this amount of difference to a DAC I had spent a serious amount of money on. Only proves that even the top notch products don't produce anything like a true sound.

Direct Stream was debunked by Amir from Audio Science Review. Get rid of it as fast as you can (otherwise you lose money)

You guys “use-to” make good vids? WHAT HAPPENED?