Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge

I think for that you'd need ASSET. I can not be sure if that would work though.... I'd like to know!

I'm using Asset as that's what J River uses supposedly. So far I have not had it work with the bridge though it does work with computer hooked to fhe DAC via USB.

Hmmm. Well, that makes sense, unfortunately.

I have my Perfect Wave Dac and Bridge set up (cable modem into Netgear WND3700 as media server with old hitachi usb hard drive into the Netgear router, and router into bridge; iPad as controller with PS Audio app; golden reference on PWD to Simaudio feeding Esoteric MG20s). I have a @20k vinyl rig, and yesterday I did an A/B comparison between the PWD and my vinyl (e.g., Norah Jones 180 gram vinyl versus standard redbook CD burned as regular FLAC file onto Hitachi USB). 70 percent of the time I preferred the vinyl, but only by a slight margin and it was highly dependent upon the quality of the recording (e.g., Norah Jones was a neck and neck race, while the Dave Brubeck "Time Out" vinyl handily beat the Flac version). To me this is amazing. A DAC/bridge combo that retails for under 4k can keep up with a fairly aggressive vinyl setup. The Perfect Wave Dac actually gives a good dose of the organic, natural energy/presence/"roundness" I appreciate in vinyl. This is the first time I have ever heard digital approach what vinyl delivers. Amazing.

So I'm a little confused. If I have a computer, I can get the Lynx soundcard that people often talk about with the Berekely DAC and computer music, then I could go from there via AES/EBU into the Perfect Wave Dac.

Now, assuming we are driving all of this from JRiver, how does that theoretically compare to the Bridge?

For the Bridge it says:

"The bridge contains all the CODECS (programs) to convert just about any format of audio into what the PerfectWave DAC wants for perfection, which is I2S. Once the Bridge gets a network music stream, it figures out what the native format is (FLAC, WAV, ALAC, MP3, etc.) and converts the format into a pure digital audio stream without any associated clocks. This is important because this data, once converted to its raw format, can then be placed into the 256 mB memory of the 'Digital Lens' and then output in I2S directly into the DAC."

If I'm coming in from the Lynx on aes/ebu that will happen anyhow, no? This is more for people who want to use ethernet and who perhaps don't have JRiver?

I ask if these are 'theoretically' the same, as of course in reality there will be at least minute differences.