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ARC Audio PS8 Digital Sound Processor Setting
the Industry Standard to the Next Level
ARC Audio is proud to announce the newest addition
to its line of high-end audiophile car audio components
with the release of the PS8 digital audio sound processor.
Designed by Robert Zeff exclusively for ARC Audio
in conjunction with the championship ARC Audio
sound quality competition team, the PS8 is setting the
highest standards possible for the car audio digital processor
industry.
The PS8 is much more than the typical sound processor
you will find from other manufacturers. Designed
from the start to have an extremely diverse level of
integration for several applications from OEM direct,
OEM summing and a practically unlimited number
of aftermarket applications, the PS8 is controlled via
a Windows PC to offer the most extensive and highest
resolution of tuning refinement of any processor on the
market. Multiple user modes ensure the needs of almost
every level of user are satisfied.
Featuring a high-performance, 32-bit audio grade,
user-programmable, fixed-point DSP capable of performing
two multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) cycles per
clock, the PS8 uses a proprietary source and operation
code written by ARC Audio engineers to deliver the
highest levels of fidelity and operation exceeding the
abilities of other car audio processors.
ARC Audio’s exclusive M.I.N.E.R. PCB layout technology—a
high capacity of precision hand-selected inline
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audio components—and its four-layer gold primary PCB
design, allows the PS8 to achieve levels of sonic perfection
that simply allow it to disappear from the audio path to
give the end user the purest, most accurate sound possible
with no alterations from the electronics.
The PS8 offers a wide flexibility of input capabilities
featuring six channels of full differential RCA inputs
capable of accepting from 28mV–20V of input and
more than 88dB of precision quality gain range, Optical
and Digital Coaxial inputs, a 3.5mm unbalanced Aux
input and optional high-resolution audiophile-grade
Bluetooth streaming input. Its output section incorporates
a fully interchangeable output core design allowing
the most discriminative of audiophiles to change out
the PS8’s output devices from a pre-approved list of
output devices giving them the power
to critique and customize the sound of
their system to whole new levels never
heard of in this industry.
The exclusive processing power of
the PS8 brings to the market the first
relative/global EQ capabilities with 248
bands of linkable Third Octave equalization
or an optional fully user-defined
248-band parametric EQ with customizable
frequency centers and “Q” to
ultimately give the PS8 the ability to
offer up to 248 bands of frequency notch filters. Crossovers
include Linkwitz-Riley, Butterworth, Variable Q,
Bessel damping and mixable 6/12/18/24/30/36/42/48
dB slopes, plus a crossover frequency selection of any
frequency from 20 Hz–20 kHz, including 6,514.5 Hz,
if desired, as well as individual channel signal delay up to
12 ms per channel (in standalone or linkable configuration).
As the available features of the PS8 are extensive,
please visit www.arcaudio.com for more information and
a complete list of details of this wonderful audiophilestandard-setting
technology.
The PS8 is only available at authorized ARC Audio
brick-and-mortar store front retailers and is not available
on the Internet. To find an authorized dealer near you,
visit www.arcaudio.com or call us at 209-543-8706.