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Introduction
Owner’s Reference
PerfectWave DAC MKII
The PS Audio PerfectWave™ Digital To Analog Converter (PWD) is a state-of-the-art D to
A processor, preamplifier and media center. The PWD accepts PCM Digital Audio data and
converts it to high-performance analog audio that can be fed directly to a power amplifier or
preamplifier.
Your PS Audio PWD represents a major advancement in the art of recreating the musical event.
The sense of being “there” at the original performance, hearing the warmth and immediacy
of the live performance is unmatched. From the elegant physical appearance to its superb
construction, your PS Audio DAC will provide you with years of musical enjoyment and pleasure.
The PerfectWave series is a system – designed to be used together for best benefit - although
each of the components within that system can be used as standalone pieces.
The system’s philosophical beginnings centered on a somewhat radical concept: that we could
create a high-end digital audio system that transcended the performance issues of storage,
media type and data delivery. We reasoned that all digital audio data should provide the same
level of performance regardless of whether it was stored on optical discs, hard drives, solid
state memory or even, for that matter, over the internet. After all, “bits-is-bits”. But we knew
that “bits- aren’t- bits” because they sounded differently; CD’s sounded different than the same
recording ripped to a hard drive, or streamed over the internet. We knew that from a theoretical
standpoint this shouldn’t be and set out to design a system that transcended these limitations.
The PWD II you have just purchased represents one of the best sounding bit perfect and fully
asynchronous digital to analog converters ever made. Every component and system in the PWD
has been listened to, labored over and the results are rather spectacular. We trust you'll enjoy music
through this beautiful audio product we are proud to place our name on.
Welcome
The System
