Yes, I drove a pair of costly, two-way speakers with an $800 integrated amplifier. Read Andrew Quint's The Absolute Sound Review. Next I tried powering with the Sprout100 a pair of Wilson TuneTots priced circa $10K depending upon finish. I've since bequeathed the speakers to a young friend who's using them with a vintage Sansui receiver I also gave him. The Sprout100 got them going pretty good in a nearfield setting used as computer monitors. They are 86dB efficient sealed boxes that require plenty of power to get going. I began listening using a pair of "vintage" NHT Superzero Mini Monitors that I've had around for decades. Setting up the Sprout100 was too easy to require description. That all adds up to a lot of "stuff" for $799 and it includes three year warranty as well as a headphone adapter, four gold plated banana speaker connectors, a power cord, and even a printed manual. A nicely machined aluminum remote turns the 100 on and off and adjusts volume as well as having a "mute" function. Left and right balanced amplifier outputs are space saving banana plug jacks.
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There are USB and optical digital inputs, the analog input and a buffered analog output (tied to the volume control so with care it can be used as a "tape out"), the phono input, plus ground lug, and a mono subwoofer "out" jack. The back panel is busy but well-organized. There's also a front panel mounted 1/4" headphone jack associated with a zero feedback low impedance amplifier.
The other adjusts level, bass boost (long pressing the knob) and quickly pushing it turns the unit on and off.
One of the two front panel machined aluminum buttons select among the four inputs. If'n you're unfamiliar with "DoP", it's not a drug, it's not a description of genuine San Marzano Italian tomatoes and it doesn't mean the DSD stream has been sonically compromised or degraded and that's all I'm going to say about it! The ESS Sabre 9016 DAC chip decodes PCM 96/24, 384/24 and DSD64 (DoP), and DSD 128 (DoP). Three other inputs are "digital", "analog", and (aptX) Bluetooth. Load is 47kOhms resistive and 100pF capacitive. Sprout100 features four inputs including MM phono optimized for a 5mV output cartridge. The attractive aluminum case features a genuine walnut wood grained top plate-a nice touch. Nothing unusual there unless you consider that the Sprout100 is approximately 8" x 6"x 2" and weighs 3 pounds-thanks to ICEpower Class D operation. The Sprout100 came about five years later so the "next gen" Sprout if there is to be one, might come next year.įor now though, there's the Sprout100, which offers 50 wpc into 8 ohms and 100 wpc into 4, or double the power of the original. This review is late, a victim of job change-related delays (among other things) but better late than never, even if PS Audio's updating history indicates a newer edition might be on the way-the Sprout100 replaced the original Sprout, which began life as a Kickstarter funded project back in 2014.
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It's certainly promising to be one of the most notable AV Kickstarter successes we've seen in the past few months, including the Geek Out DAC seen at the Bristol Show.Īnd since then, we've also seen Munich-based Bragi announce the "world's first" smart wireless in-ear headphones and Neil Young launch the high-res PonoMusic player.PS Audio Sprout 100 Does Everything But Take Up Space updated from original Sprout, the 100 is likely getting another upgrade next year A Kickstarter pledge of $449 or more (£264) gets you a Sprout at a discounted price, with a $75 (£44) charge for international delivery.īLOG: Munich High End Show 2014 in pictures
Sprout is expected to start shipping in Q3. We expect big things from this little guy." "This product is our first step in growing awareness of awesome home audio-so we think Sprout is an appropriate name. McGowan said: "Most people of my generation have grown up with earbuds and cheap plastic home-theatre systems, and have no idea how great music at home can sound.
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