What are your thoughts on the new Perfectwave DAC and transport? I heard it and was pretty blown away. The one disappointment is you cannot play SACD's. The sound quality has me thinking of what the future of audio will sound like.
hi srwooten: how many houurs did you put on the pwd (???&pwt) before critical listening ? perhaps i have misjudged these components. maybe i need more break-in time. i own ps audio's silver hdmi cable, but i prefere coax.
I'm still breaking-in my PWT. But after 200 hours - WOW - I'm floored. When I bought it, I got it for a second system, I certainly did not consider it an equal to the Accustic Arts Drive 1 in the main system -- well, the Accustic Arts is up for sell. This transport is a giant killer!
Mrtennis- I've had it for about 5 months. I feel it took it about 2 months to mostly break in. I listen to it in Native mode with filter 1. I run it single ended into a Pass X-1 pre amp.
If you are not using the HDMI you are not letting the DAC do its IS2 thing(until the bridge is released), which is where this unit shines IMHO. Running it native (with no up-sampling or down-sampling) is also important. YMMV
With regard to comment about unsatisfactory sound from the PS Audio PWD, I had a similar concern when I first got the PWT/PWD combo about a year ago. The digital volume control became the focus of my concern when I learned that this type of control must discard information in order to lower volume which explained the increasingly flater sound as I turned the volume down. I immediately bought a Pass Labs X 0.2 three piece chasis preamp. This made a phenomenal difference in the quality of the sound emanating from my Martin Logan Vantage speakers. This was the real thing for me; now, the PWT/PWD combo and the X 0.2 are keepers.
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