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PS Audio Learning Center
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How to find the best position for your subwoofer
Placing a subwoofer properly in a room can be one of the hardest tasks you can perform because it seems like there is no perfect place. This tutorial gives you a simple, straightforward solution to find the best place in your room.
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Convert Hi Rez files to WAV files
Here are a couple of different options to converting Hi Resoltuion files in formats other than WAV, to WAV, which will match the PerfectWave Transport's requirements perfectly and let you then create playlists and burn DVD and CD compilations or copies so you can enjoy them on your PWT.
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Burn DVD’s for the PWT on a MAC
Making a playlist and then burning that playlist onto a DVD is super easy on a MAC but here's step by step instructions for those of you that want to make sure you have all the right settings and everything just right. The results are amazing when played back on a PWT (PerfectWave Transport) and of course you can download hi rez files to low rez files and they will all play just fine!
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How to burn audio DVD for the PWT using Vista
The PWT will play DVD's loaded with high resolution audio material. You can download or copy any high resolution audio material, convert the format into WAV and then burn to a DVD. It will play in the PWT if you make sure of a few things first. Using Windows Vista can be a little challenging to get everything just right, so one of our customers provides us with a step-by-step explanation of just what to do.
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Connect a PWT to the internet wirelessly
You just received your new PerfectWave transport (or PowerPlay conditioner) and now you'd like to connect it to the internet so you can enjoy cover art and song titles, but there's no Ethernet connection in your listening room. Worry not. There's an easy solution called an Ethernet Bridge that can be installed anywhere the PWT is and connect, wirelessly, to your wireless router. Here's a simple tutorial on how to do this.
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How to play FLAC in iTunes
If you're on a MAC and are using iTunes to manage your music library, you may have noticed that it will not handle FLAC (Free Lossless Audio CODEC) encoded files. FLAC encoded music is the defacto standard for reducing file sizes without loss of quality. FLAC files are bit-for-bit perfect copies at about half the file size.
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How to adjust the VTA of a turntable
Many people would encourage turntable owners to play with the angle until the vinyl sound right. We would agree. However, there is a bit more science to it than just listening.
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How to avoid first reflections
When sound pressure comes out from your loudspeaker, it is typically aimed directly at your listening position. When it arrives at your listening position, it is referred to as "direct sound". Along the way towards that listening position, the sound pressure wave will hit the side walls, pieces of furniture, and so on, causing multiple reflections.
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How to resolve absolute polarity
There's no small amount of controversy surrounding this issue. That's partly because some listeners aren't particularly sensitive to the effect of inverted signal polarity, while for others, it's very irritating.
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How to deal with room treatment
This observation comes from over three decades of experience and hundreds (if not thousands) of successful critical installations.
