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comprehensive Operator’s Guide, intended to provide a full overview of the Stellar Phono
Preamplifier’s functions and capabilities. It is our intention to provide you with full details
about the Stellar Phono Preamplifier and to answer any and all questions you may have.
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A Message From
The Design
Engineer
It is inconvenient, yet utterly enthralling, to realize that measurements don’t always
correlate with what we hear. This realization is what’s been fueling my design career; it’s
so exciting and invigorating to know there are mysteries to be solved. Some of the most
commonly used circuit typologies suffer from what I call overexposed sound - the edge
transients lead with far too much high frequency energy and the overall tonality has a grey
sheen that washes out the tonal contrast. Many have claimed that this is what happens
when a circuit is transparent and has low distortion. I beg to differ.
The Stellar Phono is a fully discrete phono preamp that utilizes proprietary circuits that
don’t rely on high amounts of global feedback to lower complex distortion or increase
bandwidth. To the contrary, they were designed to be innately transparent and present
the music with a correct display of tonal balance. The circuitry is DC coupled from the
input to output and doesn’t contain any complementary circuits. The signal path is
relatively short and utilizes MOSFET and JFET semiconductors biased in pure Class A.
After hundreds of hours of listening with many different cartridges and systems, I ended
up with a phono preamp that always presents the music in the correct light. It gets out of
the way of the music and lets you focus on really what matters – our connection with the
music and most importantly the opportunity to share those moments with the people in
our lives.
So put on one of your favorite recordings, drop the needle in the groove, and kick back.
Welcome to the HiFi family.
-Darren Myers
Contact
Information
PS Audio, Inc.
4865 Sterling Drive
Boulder, CO 80301
1 (800) PSAUDIO
service@psaudio.com
www.psaudio.com
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