Even if Darren Myers’s name isn’t familiar, you still may have heard—or at least heard about—hi-fi components he designed, including the PS Audio Stellar phono preamp,1 which garnered Stereophile’s Analog Product of the Year Award in 2020.
After working on projects for Classé and Bowers & Wilkins, Myers was hired by PS Audio, where he ended his tenure as senior analog design engineer. Myers recently joined Parasound2 following the company’s acquisition by David Sheriff.3
Not all audio design engineers are themselves audiophiles, not even in the hi-fi space. But Myers is. He’s passionate