Effusive praise: Tone Audio PSA P20 Review

scotte - As you probably figured out, I’m an engineer and thinking things through is very important. I am blown away by streaming. I thought I would hear a big difference and be turned off and have to stay with SACD. I find streaming is amazing and I owe it to PSA system. I see you are a car enthusiast, here is one of my hot rods… A 600+HP 383 stroker w/ TBS 6V-71 blower. This car has a Brax audio system w/ (2) 1150 watt amps in the trunk and dual JL Audio 10in subs with an enclosure in the trunk I designed. The cab has (8) Brax Matrix speakers… :slight_smile: Roon - I have an iPAD III and was not going to spend $500 on an iPAD VI to get Roon. Mconnect w/ TIDAL does the trick. Running a QNAP 2150+ NAS w/ 8GB RAM and Seagate Iron Wolf 8GB drive for all of my .wav ripped CDs. With all of the sources I have to choose from, TIDAL (HiFi) is mostly what I’m listening to these days. I am going to upgrade to the Bridge III a year after hitting the streets and try PSA’s server. That sould be in 2020. [138]

Here is some P20 data over the course of a partial day back in June, 2018. I live in a planned community that is very new; you would think the power would be very stable and clean. On average I see the input power at 1.5% THD and sometimes as high as 2.5%. However, the P20 output is very stable at 120V with THD less then 0.1%. [performance%2002]

I’m still slumming with a P10 but about a month ago, kicked up my streaming more than a few notches with one of these…expensive, yes, but there is no comparison to my standard PC running Roon ROCK. https://www.pinkfaun.com/index.php/products/streaming-audio/pink-faun-streamer-2-16.html I2S to DS to BHK Sig Pre to M700 to Ascend Acoustics Sierra 2 , 2x 12" sealed servo subs in a moderately treated living room 14’x18’x8’.

I hate y’all here. I’m saving my pennies to either upgrade from a P10 to a P15 or P20. It depends upon how many pennies I can put away…

Brett66 - Looks like you’re into cycling; here is my cycling studio! [new%20cycling%20studio%2002] [new%20cycling%20studio%2001]

Everyone seems to love their P20"s. I wonder what the breakdown is % sales of the 12, 15, 20 ?

RonP - how are you doing these days; been riding a lot? I have been on my trainers due to summer in AZ.

Hi Richard. It’s been a very frustrating summer with seemingly intractable sciatica. I haven’t turned a pedal in months. Working hard to solve the problem but old age is a constant battle! Three Septembers ago I was at a meeting at The Biltmore in Phoenix. Gorgeous place but we lost a couple people who tried to go running in the afternoon. They just evaporated–poof–gone. Hot there!!

Pedaling is the only thing that keeps my sciatica at bay. I’m sorry you’re hurting. Only early morning rides here, too hot by 9am.

Sitting is the worst. And bumps while riding turn me into one foul mouthed old coot.

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