PS AUDIO ELITE integrated amplifier from "umpteen" years ago

It has fin-like heat radiators protruding from the back panel. The cube-like separate enclosure is the power supply. I liked the minimalist styling of the front panel and the monolith-like black-painted enclosure. I purchased it in an audio "salon" and the sales pitch included the narrative that the electronics was designed as if it were MIL-SPEC and that the separate power supply further reduced the noise component of the stereo output signals. The "genius" of the PS AUDIO founders Paul McGowan and Stan Warren.

That was when I was "into" esoteric looking and provocatively marketed audio gear. I also have the Carver TX-11 FM Radio Tuner. From Bob Carver, the inventor of the "Digital Time Lens" if memory serves me.



I look back on that time as just a period that I went through. Today I am perfectly happy to listen to music online, with YouTube and the separate speaker system for this Mac desktop system that I use. It has a subwoofer on the floor and two small desktop speakers that flank the video monitor.
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La revolución del 15 de agosto

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In 1968 my parents bought a Philco wood cabinet stereo......Flash forward to 1985- I was renting a studio apartment in Alameda while working at NAS Alameda....My Father did not want the "Old" stereo, so I grabbed it.....I bought a top-loader Magnavox CD player (With a slanted front face, and decided to upgrade the old cabinet- My Father did the wood work, while I selected the other components- a Kenwood receiver (W/15 watts per channel) and some automotive composite cone speakers- ten inch low/mid and 3 inch mid/high....The cabinet had originally had 12 inch and 3 inch speakers. I boxed in the two sides separately and even cut in some "pumper holes for the bass.

A friend at NAS (Who had $10,000 stereo) told me "You can't just slap components together....Companies spend millions of dollars to match the different components to each other"

While my father was re-finishing the cabinet, the Chicago princess living across the hall started playing her music loud.....So.... when it was finished I tested it- worked great and sounded good......an hour later "She" came home and cranked up her stereo.....I put on "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth......Cranked it up to "8" on the volume and then went into the kitchen and covered my ears...After the song there was total silence from across the hall- never heard her music again! (I normally don't play music that loud- even my guitar "playing")

In 1995, when the Naval Air Station was closing, I was able to get that friend of mine in my place as head electrician of the S-3 Assembly shop (Transferring to San Diego) and he came by for my notebook on S-3 electrical......Saw the stereo- "Hey is that it? Can I listen to it?" So I put on DSOTM and he got down on one knee between the speakers......after a minute he looked up at me with a look of shock..."What's wrong Mike?" ......."This sounds better than my stereo!"

I don't fully believe that statement- but it does sound good (Recently, the speaker foam came apart so I had a guy re-do them)

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