PS Audio PWD MKII and PWT for $3995. Good deal?

Yes it is a good deal, however, I would ask why is PS selling the stuff for such a low price?

The DAC is good however, there are better wounding newer dacs for less money, the Auralic Vega and the Metrum Hex and if you employ a computer and store your music on the computer you can get even better sound.

I no longer play optical discs, setup is a 21 inch Gateway touch panel computer running Windows 8, J River, J Play and a Wireworld USB.

The convenience of running with a computer is unbelievable, you can find and play music in seconds and the sound is exceptional way better than optical playback.

Audiooracle,

Would you please give a little more detail on your computer setup? Is the Gateway a laptop with a touch screen? How do you connect it to your DAC? Is it necessary to have a wireless network set up for it to work? Are you listening to ripped cds or high res files?

TIA

I own the PWD II dac. I auditioned it against the Bryston BDA 1 & liked it better. I no longer use a CD player. I run everything through my laptop which is a Toshiba with a 520SSD drive, 16 GB ram, Pentium 7 chip & Windows 7. Software is J River & JPLAY. My usb is the latest from Synergistic research which I compared to the best from Audioquest and Wireworld & liked it better. I run an HDMI cable from my laptop to my large screen TV so I can sit back in my Lazy Boy & pick the music I want to listen to.I sold my CD player(Electrocompaniet EMC 1 UP) and recorded everything to the laptop.If I want to play a CD ,I do it through the laptop but it will sound better if I record it first. I am very happy with the PS audio dac . It is easy to use , sounds great & has plenty of different filters so you can tweak it to your taste.

Thanks for the description Lwin. Sorry Sunnyngtx, I didn't mean to hijack your thread.

I own a PWT and PWD and think that they sound great, as do many others, but that opinion is worth about 2 cents as to whether you would prefer them over another cd player or DAC. Digital is improving rapidly and there are many worthy contenders for your $.

If your current player sounds harsh or bright at times I think the PWT PWD combo would take care of that problem without causing other problems.

I've gotten to the point where I believe that the only way to know for sure if a component is right for you is to listen to it in your own system, even though I am not able to do that myself.

I have the PWD M2 with Audiophileo/PP and Server 2012 headless wih JRiver 19. Sounds just fab and no DAC upgrade in the near future. If you split off the transport I just dont know what would sound better for the money.

Just my 10 cents

Good luck!