Owners Manual

4865 Sterling Drive, Boulder, CO 80301 Quick Start Guide

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Quick Start Guide

Owner’s Reference DirectStream DAC

• Carefully unpack the unit. Your new DirectStream comes wrapped in a soft organic

cotton bag to protect its beautiful nish. Use the included cotton gloves to remove the

unit and place in the chosen location.

• The piano black top cover has a protective plastic lm. Remove this lm.

• Connect DirectStream to your digital sources using the appropriate connections.

• Connect the AC cable into the receptacle in back and plug the unit into your Power

Plant or into the wall.

PS Audio products come from the factory with a 3-year warranty. Please register your

new DirectStream. Registration takes just a few minutes, helps us inform you about

future upgrades, keeps track of your serial number and allows us to maintain the highest

standards of product quality of any company.

To register your new unit, look on the back panel of DirectStream and note the serial

number. Using any web browser, go to www.psaudio.com and click on Register Products.

Once you have completed the registration process you can then go to the PS website and

look at the My Registered Products page. The link to this page is located at the top right

hand corner of the website once you are logged in. If you do not have web access you

may register the unit via mail or phone. Notication of software upgrades to this product

will be available only to registered owners via the web and email.

CONNECTING TO A DIGITAL SOURCE

There are four methods of connecting the digital inputs of DirectStream: Through the

home network, S/PDIF, USB and I

S. The home network option requires the addition of

the optional PS Audio Network Bridge II be installed. S/PDIF is a serial digital interface

available as an optical source (TOSlink), coaxial source (RCA) or balanced source (AES/

EBU XLR). Connect to your digital sources with any of these three cable types.

USB is the preferred method of connection for a direct-to-computer connection and

DirectStream is capable of processing up to 192kHz 24 bit PCM data as well as both single

and double rate DSD converted to DoP. Connect DirectStream to your computer using a well

regarded USB cable and make sure to set the output of your computer to exclusive mode. We

recommend the use of either Roon, Audirvana, or BitPerfect for music management software.

Once connected, your computer should automatically install DirectStream as a new device if

you have a Mac or Windows 10 operating system. If you have a Windows 7 or older operating

system you may need to download the appropriate driver from our website and install it on

your computer.

If the device is not recognized or you are unable to obtain output through DirectStream it is

possible there is a driver conict on your computer. Please see the Troubleshooting section

for further assistance on playback issues via USB.

Unpacking and

Connections

Connecting

DirectStream