PS Audio Elite US Audiophile Stereo Integrated Amplifier with Phono ( Used)

Unique Design, Locate Pre-Amplifier and Power Amplifier in One Chassis

Come with Original External Power Supply .


Made In USA

the original Elite at 55 Watts RMS per channel.

There is nothing inherently wrong with the integrated format in having preamp and power amp on a single chassis.

Certainly electrons have no idea if there on one chassis or two chassis. So it comes to design and proper execution of that design. And that's what made the PS Audio Elite, such a ground breaking product for integrated power amps.

The approach was so simple and unthought of for the time. And that was to locate the power supplies in a separate housing and attach the power supplies to the Amp/PreAmp via means of an umbilical cable.

In the power supply were two transformers one for the power amp section and a smaller one for the preamp section. So all unwanted actions caused by transformers, were eliminated. Plus with dual transformers for each section eliminated any possible sonic degradation by having one transformer power both the amp and preamp.

By todays standards the Elite remains very contemporary and does not sound dated at all.

Flexibilty was one of the main stays of the Elite. Has pre out and main in RCAs to add an a higher power amplifier as well as to use the power section as mono block configuration or use the pre amp section alone as a pre amp. A feature not often found at any level past or present.

With this flexibility the Elite has one phono section that can handle MM or MC and can be loaded with various resistors to load the cartridge properly. Input for Tuner and Tape 1 and Tape 2 as well as a video input,that can be used as a CD input. Volume and Balance controls are Noble sealed units. The volume control is of the stepped variety.

Across the front panel from left to right is Power on/off,Input Selector,Balance and Volume. On the lower front are five push buttons that are tape monitor,rumble filter,high filter,mono and muting and a headphone jack. Remember when you got a headphone jack?

The front face panel is 1/4 inch aluminium anodized in black and is rack mountable. Nickel plated RCAs on the back and speaker binding posts, along with the heat sinks for each channel.

Overall the cosmetic appearance of the Elite is no less than a stunning visual effect.

Internally the layout belies its age,with some very nice circuit boards and the outputs are the Motorola high hats, two per channel. Overall nicely done. However it is not a mil-spec build, so don't expect a Threshold or Levinson build or quality here. But then again it did not retail new for that kind of money as well. If I remember right the Elite sold for $749.95 in 1984. And to do better than the Elite mean't you would need to move considerably further upstream into the likes of Threshold,Levinson,Krell and so on. But none of those manufacturers at the time were doing high end Integrated Amps.

However with that being said the build quality of the Elite is certainly very good and not to be disparaged in anyway. To have lasted 21 years thus far and operates and functions as originally intended is testament to that fact.




Very nice PS Audio Elite Integrated Amplifier. This has the outboard power supply and the built-in phono section. Power supply holds separate transformers for the amp and pre-amp. Sounds silky with lots of bass power. Rated at 55 wpc in stereo or 200 wpc in bridged mono.

Pots and switches have been cleaned and lubricated. Sounds very nice.







Price : RM 1450
Contact Simon Ting 012-3612507

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hello,

do you still sell the PS Audio Elite Plus integrated ?
This is a question from Germany,-
what is the voltage ?
shipping costs to Germany ?
best wishes
Reinhard

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