PS AUDIO PERFECTWAVE SACD TRANSPORT

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PerfectWave SACD Transport
Unleash all that's been missing in your CD collection and, for the first time, hear what has been locked away on your SACD layer.

Locked inside your CD and SACD collection is a wealth of music you've not yet heard. How do we know that Because we, like you, know what to expect from our reference discs. Imagine our surprise and delight as the first notes played on our new, galvanically isolated, PerfectWave SACD Transport. It was love at first listen. The PerfectWave SACD player is an engineering triumph???our finest achievement in musical reproduction and information retrieval from optical media.  Breathe new life into your CD collection played through any DAC. Send the raw DSD layer of SACD into your I2S input DAC so you can hear, for the first time, what???s long been unavailable to external DACs in these high-resolution discs.

Design
38 years after the introduction of the CD, PS engineers have continued our quest for perfection in the art of data extraction and delivery so you can finally hear what's been locked away in your CD and SACD collection. The PerfectWave SACD Transport (PST) is our most advanced optical disc transport. New to this model???and for that matter, any disc player ever made???is our galvanically isolated output stage. By coupling the output of the drive mechanism to the PST's internal Digital Lens by nothing more than a pulse of energy across space, any hints of noise or ground contamination are eliminated. The results of this complete isolation are magical: a previously unheard level of image separation, openness, and effortless reproduction. Never have we experienced noise levels this low???a seemingly velvet blackness that must be experienced to understand.

Application
CD, data discs, and SACD reproduction is unequaled by any other player we know of. CDs played through PST come closer than ever to high-resolution PCM and DSD, uncovering new layers of dimensionality, soundstage, depth and musicality previously unobtainable in other optical readers or server based audio systems. Like its predecessor, DMP, PST opens the long restricted DSD layer of SACD to PS Audio DACs. PST will deliver the raw DSD layer of copyright protected SACD directly into your PS Audio DAC through I2S. This means that for the first time you'll uncover the wealth of audio's finest digital medium, DSD, and hear exactly what the mastering engineers who created these discs have enjoyed all along. Hear what you've been missing with the PerfectWave SACD Transport.

If you are like most of us, you still have a large library of physical discs. There's something about the tactile feel of opening a jewel case or pulling from a sleeve, the shiny silver disc, and enjoying what's captured on it. Despite today's trend towards streaming, CDs, SACDs, and data discs remain the best sounding media in many a library if a great disc reader is employed. None are finer or better sounding than PS Audio's PerfectWave SACD Transport. PST defines state-of-the-art performance. From the very first notes, you'll understand the sheer magnitude of performance increase brought to the system by PST. The secret to PST's ability to lower noise and jitter while extracting every nuance possible lies in its galvanically isolated output stage which separates both physically and electrically the pure digital audio data from its noisy environment. Hear more than you ever imagined possible on your discs with PST.

Multi-format sacd/cd mechanics - advanced digital lens technology capable of electrically isolating the transport mechanics and the optical group, removing jitter and any timing artifacts - data extraction and ram storage system with signal processing via fpga (field programmable gate array) - galvanically isolated output stage, immune from contamination and ground noise - oversized power supply stage with separate voltage regulators - proprietary i2s connection via hdmi capable of conveying dsd and pcm digital streams in native raw format to audio ps dacs equipped with the same interface - digital outputs: 1x i2s hdmi (raw dsd 5.6 mhz and pcm 24/192), 2x coaxial bnc (pcm 24/192 and dop, double-rate dop if used in tandem), 2x aes/ebu xlr (pcm 24/192 and dop, double-rate dop if used in tandem) (if used in tandem), 1x s/pdif coaxial electric rca (pcm 24/192 and dop) - compatibility with sacd, cd, cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, dvd-rw, dvd+r, dvd+rw optical discs - usb port positioned on the front panel dedicated to the playback of digital audio files stored on pen drives - dsd and pcm file formats supported, burned on disc or via usb port: dsf (up to 5.6 mhz), wav (up to 24/192), aiff (up to 24/192), flac (up to 24/192), alac (up to 24/96), aac (up to 16 bit / 48 khz / 320bps), mp3 (up to 16 bit / 48 khz / 320bps), wma (up to 16 bit / 48 khz / 320bps) - system firmware upgradable via internet via ethernet and wi-fi network interfaces or via usb - design and construction completely made in usa - remote control supplied - dimensions (w x h x d) 430 x 100 x 360 mm - weight 10 kg