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Introduction
The PS Audio PerfectWave
™
Transport Memory Player (PWT) is a state-of-the-art optical disc
reader. The PWT can read standard as well as high-resolution audio media on both compact
discs (CD) as well as Digital Video Discs (DVD).
Your PS Audio PWT 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 Transport 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; CDs 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.
We first experimented with modified PC motherboards and output cards to extract and manage
the data from both a hard drive and a ROM drive. These experiments quickly convinced us
that no PC equipment could be used as their environments were too noisy and the peripherals
(sound cards and interfaces) measured well but relied on massive data manipulation and
sample rate conversion to achieve low jitter. Had we stayed the course with using computer
parts placed in a nice high-end audio chassis, we would have been to market a year earlier and
competed with those manufacturers that have chosen this route. But our goals were loftier than
this and we trudged onward from the ground up with a custom solution which you now are about
to enjoy. No computer parts were used in the building of this remarkable system.
The transport you have in your possession is the first primary piece in that system demonstrating
this concept’s successful conclusion. Two years in design and thousands of hours of
programming later we are pleased to present the world’s best digital audio pieces.
Welcome
The System
Owner’s Reference
PerfectWave Transport
