PS Audio Scrapbook

Tuan and Pham assemble PS circuit boards. Circa 1978

Bob 'Bitchin'' and David K. with lots of phono stages.

Bill and Jeff dip solder some PS LCC boards.Circa 1976

The first LCC attempt. We took a phono stage and added a volume control. We never marketed this, but it's still interesting.

One of the early CES displays. CES stands for Consumer Electronic Show, and at that time, it was held twice a year, once in Las Vegas and a summer show in Chicago.

The Infinity IRS, at that time the world's most expensive loudspeaker system ($60,000). Arnie Nudell kindly lent us a pair for the Chicago CES show. People lined up outside the door to hear this spectacular audio system, driven solely by all PS Audio electronics.

Yee gads! Paul McGowan and Bill Abplanalp apparently asleep while standing up. We clipped this out of a Chinese magazine article about CES. We are standing next to the Elite Integrated amplifier. The Elite was the world's first high end integrated amplifier.

When we built this Web site, my wife suggested I show some restraint and not publish a picture of my license of many years ago. I listened to most of her advice, but obviously not that piece. My, how things have changed! It's a wonder I wasn't arrested on sight....

Another view of the Infinity IRS in the PS Audio CES room. We had to put a 'fence' to keep people away from the speakers. Our room was packed from morning till night. Few had ever heard such an audio system.

Yet another CES show and this time, a rack of equipment. In the rack, a PS IVH preamp, two IIC+ power amps, and on the floor to the right of the rack, an HCPS (High Current Power Supply) for the preamp. PS Audio pioneered the use of large, low impedance transformers for its small signal devices - a practice unheard of when we introduced it.

Rick Cullen at the test bench, circa 1977. He's working on an amplifier module for the Model One power amplifier, PS Audio's first power amp. If you saw Rick today, you'd never know all this time had passed. Rick never seems to age. Remember the Twilight Zone episode where the guy never aged......

This must have been on the way to a Vegas CES show. Stan and Paul got caught in a freak snow storm and, here, Stanley runs for cover as I brave the elements to capture it on film for posterity.

Thanks to Brian Ward (second from right, back row) for sending in this memory of nearly 20 years ago. The PS crew while still in Santa Maria California circa 1980.