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15-042-21-1 Rev A

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©2010 PS Audio International Inc. All rights reserved. 

The PS Audio PerfectWaveTM 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. 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 DAC 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.

Owner’s Reference

Perfect Wave DAC

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Страница 1: ...for use PerfectWave DAC Owner s Reference Perfect Wave DAC 4826 Sterling Drive Boulder CO 80301 PH 720 406 8946 service psaudio com www psaudio com 15 042 21 1 Rev A Instruction i 2010 PS Audio Intern...

Страница 2: ...he other A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong The wide blade or the third prong are provided for your safety If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet consult an e...

Страница 3: ...1 Filter 1 MP APOD 11 Filter 2 MP SOFT 11 Filter 3 LP APOD 12 Filter 4 LP SOFT 12 Filter 5 MP 1 2B 13 Phase Polarity 14 Remote Control 14 Dimming the Display 15 Checking the Firmware Version Number 15...

Страница 4: ...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...

Страница 5: ...ear the PWD to increase the range of the remote control Stacking with a PerfectWave Transport The PWD and PWT were designed to stack on top of each other if they are not placed on separate shelves To...

Страница 6: ...er type equipment and the PWD is capable of processing up to 96kHz 24 bit USB data Most DAC s are capable of only 48kHz 16 bit data over USB Connect the PWD to your computer using a standard USB cable...

Страница 7: ...the PWD directly into your power amplifier and bypass the preamplifier There s no preamplifier like no preamplifier Certainly this is your choice but we believe the fewer pieces of equipment in the ch...

Страница 8: ...olution audio file or as your listening experience would suggest Many people feel that NATIVE is a cleaner and more natural presentation of audio that does not rely on the digital manipulation found i...

Страница 9: ...band is much less audible For a typical minimum phase filter designed for 44 1kHz the group delay distortion up to 10kHz is under 2 samples less then 46 s and may be inaudible The minimum phase filte...

Страница 10: ...r 4 LP SOFT Linear phase soft knee filter No group delay perfect phase vs frequency minimal post ringing some pre ringing softer filter cutoff Filter 5 MP 1 2B Minimum phase recursive Half Band symmet...

Страница 11: ...sophisticated software that is built in to the device but upgradable by the user through the rear panel mounted SD card To check for the current firmware version follow these steps First turn off the...

Страница 12: ...ndled with either the player s front panel or a hand held remote control In a computer based digital audio system a hard drive or flash memory takes the place of the CD Reading the stored audio inform...

Страница 13: ...choice do you want a computer involved or not It is certainly possible to eliminate the computer entirely in a network audio setup like PS Audio s PerfectWave system now or anytime in the future The f...

Страница 14: ...p to 192kHz and bit depth of 32 bits for any format We recommend lossless for storing your library The PerfectWave is designed to produce bit perfect performance for any of the three lossless formats...

Страница 15: ...lication touching the Library icon will launch the Library Setup page The page will list all of the avail able DLNA UPNP Servers on the network Scroll through the list to find the desired server and t...

Страница 16: ...tion At this point we select Artist since we know the name of the art ist After selecting Artist we are presented with a list of Artists from the Server We can now use the quick naviga tion letters at...

Страница 17: ...ll return you to the begin ning page of navigation for your server Now Playing Screen When playback begins track position cover art transport con trol volume control and details of the next track in t...

Страница 18: ...m navigation bar From Radio you may select from various sources for Internet radio eTracks Enjoy our extensive music library with our exclusive eTracks radio station We ve taken the utmost care with t...

Страница 19: ...hing the Saved Playlists button selecting editing and playing Saved Playlists is covered in the Accessing Saved Playlists section of this user guide Editing the Queue Touching the Edit button will all...

Страница 20: ...e playlist Clear the Queue If you would like to clear the Queue touch the Clear button Accessing Saved Playlists Saved Playlists can be accessed through the Queue Screen Playlists are listed in Alphab...

Страница 21: ...emoved the device and force Windows to reinstall the Device On a Windows based machine right click on MY COMPUTER and select PROPERTIES This will populate a window titled System Properties From System...

Страница 22: ...ansfer of Warranty This Warranty is for the benefit of the original purchaser of the covered product and may be transferred to a subsequent purchaser of the product Extended warranty policies 1 By reg...

Страница 23: ...r or distributor PS Audio may at its discretion return a product in new packaging and bill the owner for such packaging if the product received by PS Audio was boxed in nonstandard packaging or if the...

Страница 24: ...wner s Reference Perfect Wave DAC 4826 Sterling Drive Boulder CO 80301 PH 720 406 8946 service psaudio com www psaudio com 15 042 21 1 Rev A Instruction i 2010 PS Audio International Inc All rights re...

Страница 25: ...wner s Reference Perfect Wave DAC 4826 Sterling Drive Boulder CO 80301 PH 720 406 8946 service psaudio com www psaudio com 15 042 21 1 Rev A Instruction i 2010 PS Audio International Inc All rights re...

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