PS Audio announces the Stellar Strata-- an integrated amplifier pushing 200W per channel (into 4 ohms) the company says is balanced from input to output for sound quality and quiet operation.
The preamplifier stage features the PS Audio analog Gain Cell, a control centre eliminating the sonic degradation conventional volume controls can cause. The built-in DAC is designed by the PS Audio engineering team of Bob Stadherr and Darren Myers, and claims to deliver sound quality from any digital source. The amp feeds all digital signals in native mode into a proprietary 32-bit Digital Lens, a DAC component able to recognise the sample rate, re-clock the data, reduce jitter and apply other processing. The DAC delivers up to 384kHz digital audio depending on the source, with native DSD capability.