High Definition audio and your system

High Definition audio will someday be all you can purchase when you go to buy music and thank goodness for that.  Whether you listen to vinyl or CD you are not enjoying the openness and resolution available on the original master tape.  In fact, most of us have never heard a master tape or a master digital recording.  Vinyl lovers have to tolerate the innacuaracies of their cartridges (especially moving coil cartridges which exagerate the top end) and phono preamplifiers, as well as digital audio listeners, have had to tolerate truncated resolutions and bit rates when the master tapes are forced into the low sample and bit rates required by CD’s.

Not until the advent of PS Audio’s PerfectWave Transport could we  really enjoy all the benefits of listening to bit-for-bit perfect copies of the original master tapes of these recordings.  But not everyone can own a PerfectWave Transport and PerfectWave DAC so how do "the rest of us" get a taste for High Definition audio?  Through a computer.  No, it’s not the best source and never will be.  But it’s an excellent way to get started and hear the difference of what you’ve been missing.  This 8 minute video will guide you through the principals of getting High Definition audio into and out of your computer.

What’s not mentioned in this video is the software requirements for playing the various formats that High Definition audio comes in, such as FLAC , AIFF , AAC and WAV .  Software like the popular Monkey’s Audio are the tools of choice and you can find plenty of info on the PS Learning center’s Audiopedia .  We will have further videos and more information available through the PS Learning Center to help guide you through the often confusing world of computer audio. 

For those of you with the PerfectWave Transport in hand, no worries.  All you need to do is simply place the High Definition audio disc in your PWT and hit play.

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