For our founder's namesake series, mere iterations or incremental changes to our existing product lines wouldn't suffice. The PMG series has been reconceived from the ground up, leveraging 50 years of expertise in Hi-Fi audio innovation to create an offering that transcends expectation in every way imaginable.
Form and function achieve peak harmony in the newly designed PMG chassis. With looks that kill, and high-mass density that kills unwanted vibrations, we've never seen a more optimal environment for immaculate audio.
A Sound Qutcome
In the end, enjoying audio is all about feeling, which is why crafted the PMG series by trustşng our ears. But is the beginning, achieving state-of-the-art performance is what sets for greatness. The PMG series was built on cutting edge measurements and designed for vivid color and resolution.
The Paul McGowan Signature Series
PMG Signature 512 DAC
Not everything is an evolution. Sometimes there are paradigm shifts so monumental that the results are completely singular.
Meet the all new PMG Signature 512 DAC powered by PureStream DSD.
Digital audio was born in 1982 with the launch of the first CD player, and PS Audio didn’t miss a beat—we introduced the world’s first high-performance standalone D-to-A converter and never looked back. Now, after decades of innovation, we proudly unveil the PMG Signature 512 DAC. At its core is the PureStream DSD512 engine, converting any form of digital audio into a pure 8X DSD stream—no PCM, no decimation, no compromise. That stream feeds our SpectraWave 64-Tap Sequencer, lowering noise and distortion while perfectly time-aligning the signal. From there, it flows into a state-of-the-art, direct-coupled analog output stage. The result is breathtaking—fluid, natural, and as analog as it gets. With a built-in high-end streamer for seamless access to your music, the 512 is our best DAC ever. For the first time in PS Audio’s history, our founder’s name graces a DAC. Yes, it’s that good. And this time, it’s personal.
Design
Designing the PMG Signature 512 DAC was never about meeting expectations—it was about redefining what a digital source could be. This is a radical departure not only from traditional PCM-based architectures but also from conventional DSD implementations and off-the-shelf chip solutions. At its core is our all-new PureStream DSD512 engine, a proprietary design that upsamples every input—PCM or DSD—to a native 8X DSD stream. That stream is then refined by our SpectraWave 64-Tap Sequencer, a precision digital filter engineered to eliminate jitter, reduce noise, and preserve every nuance of the music. The result is pure sonic truth, passed into a fully balanced, direct-coupled analog output stage. With galvanically isolated inputs, a built-in high-performance streamer, and precision analog volume control, the PMG 512 is not just a DAC—it’s the heart of a no-compromise reference system.
Application
The PMG Signature 512 DAC is as versatile as it is revolutionary—and a major step above even the finest DACs we’ve ever built. Use it as a standalone directly into your power amplifier, thanks to its ultra-precise analog volume control, and experience purity, dynamics, and realism like never before. At its heart is PS Audio’s latest high-definition streaming module, fully galvanically isolated to eliminate noise and preserve absolute musical integrity. Whether paired with the PMG Signature Preamplifier for the ultimate reference system or run solo into your amp, the 512 delivers sound that is breathtakingly clear, natural, and alive. This isn’t just high-end performance. This is a whole new benchmark. The PMG Signature 512 DAC is music, uncompromised.
PMG Signature SACD Transport
The PMG Transport connects your DAC to the hidden magic that's been locked away in your discs. You won't believe what you've been missing!
Locked inside your CD and SACD collection is a treasure trove of music you've never truly heard. How do we know? Because we, like you, know every note of our reference discs—and we were stunned when we heard them through the new PMG Signature SACD Transport. This isn’t just another player. It’s the finest optical disc transport we’ve built in 43 years, and for the first time in our history, our founder has signed his name to it. The PMG Signature SACD Transport is an engineering triumph, designed to extract every nuance and detail from your CDs and SACDs with unmatched precision. With galvanically isolated outputs and ultra-low jitter design, it breathes new life into your CD collection when paired with any DAC. And when connected via I²S, it unlocks the raw DSD layer of your SACDs—delivering what was once hidden to external DACs. This is not nostalgia. This is revelation. The PMG Signature SACD Transport is the ultimate disc playback system—worthy of the name, and the legacy.
Design
43 years after the introduction of the CD, PS engineers have continued our quest for perfection in the art of data extraction and delivery so you can finally hear what's been locked away in your CD and SACD collection. The PMG Signature SACD Transport is our most advanced optical disc transport. New to this model—and for that matter, any disc player ever made—is our galvanically isolated output stage. By coupling the output of the drive mechanism to the PMG's internal Digital Lens by nothing more than a pulse of energy across space, any hints of noise or ground contamination are eliminated. The results of this complete isolation are magical: a previously unheard level of image separation, openness, and effortless reproduction. Never have we experienced noise levels this low—a seemingly velvet blackness that must be experienced to understand.
Application
CD, data discs, and SACD reproduction is unequaled by any other player we know of. CDs played through the PMG Signature SACD Transport come closer than ever to high-resolution PCM and DSD, uncovering new layers of dimensionality, soundstage, depth, and musicality previously unobtainable in other optical readers or server-based audio systems. Like its predecessor, the PerefectWave SACD Transport, the PMG Signature opens the long-restricted DSD layer of SACD to PS Audio DACs. The PMG will deliver the raw DSD layer of copyright-protected SACD directly into your PS Audio DAC through I²S. This means that you'll uncover the wealth of audio's finest digital medium, DSD, and hear exactly what the mastering engineers who created these discs have enjoyed all along. Hear what you've been missing with the PMG Signature SACD Transport.
PMG Signature Preamplifier
Zero distortion clarity and noise, so you get everything you want to hear, and nothing you don't.
With unsullied acoustic transparency, the PMG Preamplifier delivers zero-distortion clarity, so you get everything you want to hear, and nothing you don’t.
The Paul McGowan Signature Preamplifier isn’t an evolution—it’s a revolution. It’s our flagship, the very best we know how to build, and the first product in 50 years to carry the name of our founder. It had to. This time, it’s personal. Born from a lifetime of relentless pursuit, this is the purest, most transparent conduit between music and emotion we’ve ever created. With a vanishingly low noise and distortion floor of -150dB—beyond the limits of human perception—it uncovers musical truth with explosive dynamics, infinite depth, and holographic imaging. Nothing we’ve built comes close. Once you hear it, there’s no going back. It’s not just a preamp. It’s a revelation.
Design
The Paul McGowan Signature Preamplifier is a bold leap beyond anything that’s come before. Its fully balanced circuitry delivers an unprecedented level of purity and control. With a dynamic range approaching 150dB—the difference between a single molecule of sound and standing beside a roaring jet engine—it achieves a level of sonic blackness almost no other design on Earth can touch. Transients explode with lightning speed, and its bandwidth stretches beyond 100kHz for limitless openness and realism. High-speed, zero-feedback Diamond buffers preserve every musical nuance, while a revolutionary film-capacitor power supply unleashes dynamics with astonishing grace. This is not refinement. This is reinvention. The PMG Signature is pure musical authority.
Application
The preamplifier is the heart of any high-end system. Every note, every breath, every bit of music from your sources—DACs, phono stages, CD players—passes through it before reaching your power amp. It’s the final gatekeeper, and it better be right. The Paul McGowan Signature Preamplifier is the first product in 50 years to carry my name, and for good reason. It delivers complete control, ultra-low distortion, and total isolation between sources and amplification. With five identical balanced and single-ended inputs, all signals are converted to fully balanced and passed through our zero-feedback Class A Diamond buffers. Nothing is added, nothing taken away. This is where the magic happens.
PMG Signature Phono Preamplifier
Meet our love letter to vinyl. With headroom for days, and zero feedback, this preamp is unmatched in its ability to reveal the truth in your record collection.
The PMG Signature Phono Preamplifier is a groundbreaking leap into the future of analog playback—unlike anything any vinyl lover has ever heard. Designed from the ground up by PS Audio engineer Darren Myers, this revolutionary phono stage features a cutting-edge transimpedance input and a zero-feedback topology that strips away distortion, coloration, and noise, revealing the purest truth hidden in the grooves. It’s the first phono preamp in our 50-year history to bear the name of our founder—because it had to be that good. With dual inputs for both moving coil and moving magnet cartridges, and remote-controlled loading and gain options, the PMG Signature adapts effortlessly to any system. Its fully discrete FET design delivers massive headroom, ultra-low noise, and explosive dynamics that bring your records to life in ways you’ve never imagined. This is not just a phono preamp—it’s a liberation of analog. Vinyl, like you’ve never heard it.
Design
Phono preamplifiers—even at the highest levels—are often compromised by cost-cutting decisions: integrated circuits, shared power supplies, limited headroom, and simplified signal paths. The PMG Signature Phono Preamplifier throws all of that out the window. From the beginning, this was a no-compromise design, built with a singular goal: to create the finest phono stage in the world, regardless of price.
There’s not a single op-amp or integrated circuit in the signal path. Instead, every stage is constructed from hand-selected, discrete FETs and BJTs, operating in pure Class A. The topology is fully complementary and direct-coupled—chosen not for cost, but for its ability to deliver the lowest distortion, the highest resolution, and a complete absence of sonic fingerprint. The result is astonishing headroom, ultra-low noise, and lightning-fast transient response, capable of reproducing the most delicate nuances and the most explosive dynamics with equal ease.
While not inexpensive, the PMG Signature Phono Preamplifier is built to stand the test of time and stands head and shoulders above anything else we—or anyone—have ever built. If you're ready to hear just how far vinyl playback can truly go, you're ready for the PMG Signature.
Application
The PMG Signature Phono Preamplifier is the ultimate companion to the finest tonearms, cartridges, and turntables in the world. Designed as a true reference component, it redefines what’s possible in analog playback—delivering unmatched transparency, explosive dynamics, and a vanishingly low noise floor. Whether you're using a low-output moving coil or a high-output moving magnet cartridge, the PMG Signature brings out the full character of your setup with effortlessness and authority.
Its revolutionary transimpedance input gives cartridges a direct, uncolored path to amplification, eliminating loading concerns and revealing detail, texture, and space that conventional designs leave behind. For a more traditional approach, the voltage input offers adjustable gain and loading, all controlled remotely—so you can fine-tune your system from the listening chair.
With dual inputs for two tonearms, fully discrete zero-feedback circuitry, and precision control at every stage, the PMG Signature is not just another phono preamp—it’s the current state of the art, regardless of price. Use it in the highest-end analog systems on the planet and experience what’s been hiding in your vinyl all along. This is a revolution in analog performance.