I love his enthusiasm. His love for his craft shines through.

Really a genius... I can understand what he's talking about from theoretical point of view since I'm an Electronic Engineer, but I could never dream of building something like what he did.. Truly amazing...

This guy is a genius. I can understand what he says as an analog designer..

Great video; it was good listening to Ted , he really explained very clearly how digital to audio processing works on your C.D player or your P.C and all problems to get to near perfect audio.

I'm in my mid fifties and in my early twenties I worked a second night job at a mental health facility (nuthouse). For some reason watching this guy brings back a lot of memories from those days!

Ted, love you brother. Thank you so much for sharing your gift with us. God bless you sir!

So many old man with better hearing capabilities than young teens - strong believe can do magic.

Well that was interesting. Not my engineering expertise at all. But I admire this engineer's knowledge and passion. With new technology, comes new problems that need to be solved. Glad there is interest in making standard CDs sound as good as they can, as well, since there are gazillions of them out there. I can learn a thing or ten from this guy!!!!

DSD is by far the best format. Insanely stunning realism of sound reproduction.

This guy is brilliant, I like how he professionally explained.

Audio Asylum... I loved that forum, and it was/(prolly still is) a wild and entertaining place.

This was very educational thank you

This looks like it could be an amazing product. I've been hesitating buying a headphone amp and DAC ever since purchasing my Audeze LCD-3 a few months ago. I've never seen anything that seemed to fit all my needs and provide top notch sound quality and future proofing for DSD playback. Have had my eye on Chord Hugo but not entirely convinced yet. The Ayre Acoustics QB-9 DSD looks great but with only USB input for a £2500 product? Hmmm ... I shall be patient and wait for the PS DirectStream DAC's release and hope that this will be my end game product for use with headphones and in my main system too.

Have you guys Improved on this design since this video? I think I have some solutions or can point in the right direction to add to the great work hes done. I just found out about you guys over at PS Audio and its quickly becoming part of my lifes purpose to come work with you guys.

Hope someone will read this 5 years after the thread was started. Now in 2019 we have Zilinx chips better then the 2013 era used in PS Direct Stream. So the questions that follow are all related to the difference between PS and Chord. The Cord M Scaler uses a much bigger Zilinx. PS never uses the word "Taps" in its description of is use of its FPGA. In fact PS chief engineer says PS uses the FPGA for its conversion of PCM to DSD. Is that all? Chord doesn't really say what the Taps are for. So the question is does the Direct Stream need more Tips to compete with Chord? Chord seems to say Tap number is directly related to SQ. PS Audio says new filter soltware improves SQ. They can both be right so I'm not trying to throw stones. The engineering question is what are the taps used for in the signal path? Low pass filtering, PCM to DSD translation or other things. Could the Direct Stream benefit from a "million taps" that seems to be Chord's holy grail.

Real question. How different sounding is this compared to my Fiio M11 Pro which also has "All to DSD" mode (Kills battery btw) and also has THX implemented into it?

The audience can probably hear less than 14khz yet wants 100khz toys (DSD)

You can buy a smsl dac on ebay with dsd support for 249 $$

Very interesting talk! Thanks for sharing!

HOW I WISH HAD COME ACROSS THIS EARLIER

This guy is off the wall...... Love it..

Great Video... He reminds me of Woz. GREAT Eng. but not so much in presenting made this talk Perfect!

I know nothing about this but the explanation was still interesting... Also, is that Bill Crutchfield in the front row?

Fantastic. Looks like a very cool team to work with too!

That was AWESOME !!! 100% understood everything Ted described. I have a much better appreciation of why different DAC's sound different. #1 take away. "Jitter" is the enemy because it creates small phase changes in the output signal and humans are extremely sensitive to phase information.

I have a DSD tascam recorder. It is a good format but just didn't win. I recorded a crappy keyboard for a play rehearsal once and was floored by the quality of the 1/4" Jack on the recording. I also wonder why these " Audiophiles" can never get good live sound. 🤔

A truly great forum for us nerds a person that is interested in audio. audio technology.He truly has a deep interesting take on finding the end to a means.

Ted, what were you saying about doing something with a PS3?

excellent educational program

Ted: Have you blindtested the audibility of jitter?

This is all well and good but I was just looking for an AM clock radio to listen to the news on.

2:18 could someone write the name of the song he refers to, please, I can't understand?

Basically, avoid jitter which is tied to anything digital, so stay in analogue.

Hi Paul! Do you have intention of licensing this new technology to some other audio manufacturers? You said it was a game changer, is it across the board or just in a specific price range? Can it outshine the most expensive DAC on the market? I know I am putting you on the spot here ;-)

SMSL M8 DAC ES9018 XMOS Optical/Coaxial/USB Asynchronous 384KHZ/24Bit DSD64/128

I can't work out if Ted needs to cut back on the coffee or if his brain simply works at a million miles an hour and has so much information kicking around up there that he has trouble getting it out. I suspect some of it is nerves, but he seems like one really switched on dude.

Hilarious highlights : 18:14 - 22:22 - 24:13 - 29:49 - 31:44

Yes Yes Yes, I Am trying to find a bank to loan me the 7k or so to buy one.. Thanks You SO Very Much. Big Smile.....

This guy is like doc brown. Has he got a time machine ????

Speaking of jitter, this guy is more jittery than a 80s cd player amirite

whoa...Gandalf just showed up

tlrd?

6000... for DAC only...

Ted how is DSD going ?. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

all right later

If your attention is on jitter then you will hear it. Why don’t you guys just sit down and listen to the music and enjoy it .

what item this video is about??

I like this gay :) He's name is passion :)

10:30 minutes in and he's lost everyone

Why does Paul not look any younger or older in his new videos vs this one that’s 8 years old. I’m confused he’s probably a reptilian or alien 👽