Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge

Exactly the info I wanted! Interesting... Well - once you have it at 800 in the back of the device you might as well go with ethernet and the cheap connection. If you do Lynx its basically same price as Bridge. So, if they offered an external Lens, lets say for 800, then you'd have to spend 800 on Lynx and then 800 for the Lens, so its probably not for computer music as much as getting that last 5% from other connections, maybe from an existing CD player for example.

So, the interesting comparison at this point is:

JRiver / Lynx / Berkeley
vs
JRiver / Ethernet / Bridge+PerfectWave

Anyone compare those yet? I know people have compared PerfectWave vs Berkeley, but I'm thinking of those specific combos.

While in general I would have thought the Berkeley to be much better, perhaps with this lens stuff the PerfectWave is competitive?

Tmhayes,

Would you mind giving a little more detail on your setup? Is your external hard drive connected to your computer, router or PWD with wire? If so, what kind of wire? I'm having a little trouble figuring all this out for myself. I'm obviously not computerly inclined. Any help would be appreciated.

Tomcy6:

Assuming that you are referring to the PWD with Bridge…

Your external hard drive will connect via USB to a computer (or a NAS). Said computer or NAS needs to be connected to a wireless router (wireless for wi-fi interface with a controller – say an iTouch). I would however recommend connecting the computer (or NAS) to the router with Ethernet cable (CAT 5 or CAT 6 – although it won’t make a difference in this application). You then need to connect the router to the PWD/Bridge via another run of Ethernet cable (this is the only wired option for a network interface with the Bridge)…again, Cat 5 cable is fine. There is a way to interface wirelessly between the Bridge and router, but that would require a wireless dongle. Your best bet is to go wired.

Hope this helps.

Happy New Year!

_Ben

Thanks Ben and a Happy New Year to you also!

That helps but let me get a little more specific. What I would like to do is get a NAS with a couple of hard drives so I'd have automatic backup. Since my computer with the modem and my stereo are in different places I'd like to be able to move the NAS and connect it by wire (USB or CAT 5) to the computer or router for downloading music then move it to the stereo and connect it to the PWD Bridge with CAT 5 for listening.

I'd like to control the NAS with an IPod Touch or IPad or something similar. Would that work? I'm guessing that the controlling software would have to be on the computer. Are there Wifi NASs that could be connected to the router wirelessly so that it could take orders as to what to play? If the answer to all that is too long just let me know and I'll wait another year to get into servers. I don't mind playing cds.

While I'm not 100% sure, I think JRiver will do most/all of that. You may need the upnp stuff. Devil is in the details. This stuff is just barely complicated enough that in the end you have to just start building it and then find out what will/won't work... Not saying not to ask questions, but I've built a few of these and its amazing how much goes into getting it right in the end.