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Taken from the PS Audio Newsletter
The Reference Link
I seem to remember reading a story once about someone’s grandfather passing away and when the grandson went to visit grandpa’s house he opened the garage only to find a brand new 1920 automobile that grandpa had but never drove. What a treasure! Well, we have a similar story. Angie Duran (our VP of Sales and Marketing) and I went on a trip to visit our dealers in Asia and along the way we met with our Taiwan distributor, Enkei. Mr. Huang and his son Kevin run Enkei. Mr. Huang is affectionately known as “the Chairman” of the Taiwan audio group because he headed up all the retailers for years and years. He’s a consummate Audiophile and a wonderful man.
On our visit we went to their warehouse and noticed, off in a corner, a group of PS Audio boxes from the era of PS where I was not a part. This was the era where PS produced the Ultralink, the Lambda and all the terrific digital audio equipment of that era. I think the Ultralink was named as product of the year if I remember correctly.
Upon a closer look I was stunned at what I saw: about 10 brand new, never opened Reference Links. A Reference Link was an Ultralink DAC on steroids. It was an amazing piece of engineering, containing a full-on Ultra Analog DAC and Ultra Analog A to D converter. Just take a look at the picture of the insides. These were all hand built in the Ultra Analog labs in San Francisco. They are a complete preamplifier with 5 analog inputs (that were then passed through the A/D converter and into the Ultra Analog DAC) and a complete Ultralink DAC. At the time, this was state of the art.
I have one in the PS Museum and can tell you straight out as a DAC, it still sounds incredible. This was the pinnacle of the 16 bit, 44.1kHz DACS of the day and in its day, sold for $3K.
Mr. Huang asked me if any of our customers would be interested in owning one of these beauties. I was certain someone would so we shipped all 10 back to PS in Boulder. Each one is brand-new, never opened, and complete with remote control, full on DAC, preamp and an amazing performer for its day. If you’re trying to put together a second system, something for the budding Audiophile or for just the thrill of owning one of these beauties, let us know. We’ll offer them for $800 each and there are only 10. You can email sales@psaudio.com
The Reference Link
I seem to remember reading a story once about someone’s grandfather passing away and when the grandson went to visit grandpa’s house he opened the garage only to find a brand new 1920 automobile that grandpa had but never drove. What a treasure! Well, we have a similar story. Angie Duran (our VP of Sales and Marketing) and I went on a trip to visit our dealers in Asia and along the way we met with our Taiwan distributor, Enkei. Mr. Huang and his son Kevin run Enkei. Mr. Huang is affectionately known as “the Chairman” of the Taiwan audio group because he headed up all the retailers for years and years. He’s a consummate Audiophile and a wonderful man.
Upon a closer look I was stunned at what I saw: about 10 brand new, never opened Reference Links. A Reference Link was an Ultralink DAC on steroids. It was an amazing piece of engineering, containing a full-on Ultra Analog DAC and Ultra Analog A to D converter. Just take a look at the picture of the insides. These were all hand built in the Ultra Analog labs in San Francisco. They are a complete preamplifier with 5 analog inputs (that were then passed through the A/D converter and into the Ultra Analog DAC) and a complete Ultralink DAC. At the time, this was state of the art.
I have one in the PS Museum and can tell you straight out as a DAC, it still sounds incredible. This was the pinnacle of the 16 bit, 44.1kHz DACS of the day and in its day, sold for $3K.
