PS AUDIO Stellar Gain Cell DAC Pre-Amplifier - Black
What happens when you take a zero-loss state of the art analog preamplifier and add to it one of the best sounding DACs there are? Audio nirvana.
It turns out that a great analog preamp preserves a DAC’s magic. Together, preamp and DAC form a new class of product whose sum is greater than its parts.
Stellar Gain Cell™. A redefined and improved instrument featuring our proprietary analog gain cell and digital to analog converter.
Think of the Stellar Gain Cell DAC as a complete analog control center with an exceptional performing DAC at its heart.
All the features and functions you’d ever want in an analog preamplifier and modern DAC are right here in Stellar. A zero-loss, fully balanced, pure, analog signal path combined with DAC features rarely found at any price level: pure DSD, asynchronous USB, Digital Lens technology, I²S to connect to our best transport, balanced throughout. Replace your preamplifier, your DAC—or both—and be stunned at the level of improvement when the full and rich tapestry of music surprises and delights your senses.
In the more than forty years of PS Audio’s design innovations and breakthrough products, Stellar’s groundbreaking level of performance as our gateway standalone DAC and preamplifier is unmatched for price and performance by their standalone competitors. Taken together, we’re willing to bet you’ve never heard anything quite this good at anywhere even remotely close to this price.
Specifications
- Class A balanced analog preamplifier
- Full function DAC
- Class A headphone output
- Remote control
- Fixed or variable DAC mode
- 2 output 12 volt triggers
Analog preamplifier
- One balanced analog input
- Three single ended analog inputs
- Analog Gain Cell stage
- Fully balanced input to output
- Balanced XLR analog output
- Single ended RCA analog output
- Home theater bypass
- Direct coupled without any capacitors in output signal path
Digital To Analog Converter
- Four digital inputs
- I2S input
- Digital Lens technology
- Native Mode
- Three user selectable digital filters
- Compatible with PS Audio DMP for SACD playback in DSD
- DSD direct through I2S
- 192kHz asynchronous coax input
- 384kHz asynchronous USB
- 96kHz asynchronous TOSLINK input
- Single and double rate DSD
- CPLD input (FPGA) lowers jitter, waveshapes, reduces propagation delay
- Native mode standard
- No added Sample Rate Conversion
- High current class A hybrid output stage
- Passive output filter lowers transient distortion
- Direct coupled without any capacitors in output signal path
- High bandwidth output stage -3dB 60kHz
- Low jitter clocks
- High Current oversized analog power supply
- 7 voltage regulators
- High speed power supply diodes
- Massive 15,000 mFd low ESR capacitors
- ESS Hyperstream
Full 3 Year Warranty
