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PerfectWave SACD Transport

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.
"It took my digital front end to a level I did not know it was capable of."

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. Winner of the 2021 Golden Ear Award from The Absolute Sound
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    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.

    • SACD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R*/-RW*/+R*/+RW* (*Audio data file only)
    • PLAYS MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, DSD, 2xDSD, AND ALAC FROM DISCS OR USB INPUT
    • 2x BNC (COAX) OUTPUT FOR PCM AND DOP. USE IN TANDEM FOR DOUBLE-RATE DOP
    • USB DATA INPUT FOR STORED DIGITAL MEDIA
    • SACS DSD LAYER AVAILABLE THROUGH I2S OUTPUT
    • ADVANCED DIGITAL LENS TECHNOLOGY
    • I2S OUTPUT FOR PCM AND DSD (RAW)
    • 2x XLR OUTPUT FOR PCM AND DOP. USE IN TANDEM FOR DOUBLE-RATE DOP
    • MEMORY PLAYER TRANSPORT
    • GALVANICALLY ISOLATED OUTPUT STAGE
    • 1x RCA (COAX) OUTPUT FOR PCM AND DOP
    • LARGE ANALOG POWER SUPPLY
    • SEPARATE POWER REGULATORS
    • FPGA SIGNAL PROCESSING
    • NEAR-FIELD LATCH PLACEMENT
    • ZERO SETUP, JUST PLUG AND PLAY
    • REMOTE CONTROL
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    • David Susilo Unscripted (YouTube)

      DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE: PS Audio PerfectWave SACD/CD Transport unboxing and review.

      May 13, 2024  
    • Michael Lavorgna

      The sonic superiority of the PerfectWave was evident within moments of hitting Play and hearing Chet Baker's floppy vocals from the soundtrack to Let's Get Lost. All of his spit, wit, and loose-toothed wisdom entered the Barn's space as if nothing stood in between the recording and me but air

      May 27, 2021  
    • Ken Redmond, The Audio Beatnik

      The PerfectWave SACD Transport was consistently better than the other transports I threw against it in almost every category. It took my digital front end to a level I did not know it was capable of. Limitations that I previously thought were inherent in the Redbook format were significantly reduced, primarily in the areas of soundstage depth and the resolution of low-level detail. What it does for Redbook CDs may be worth the price of admission in itself. I spent many a night listening to CDs

      October 1, 2021  
    • Moreno Mitchell, Stereo Times

      Although audio streaming is good, there is nothing like listening to digital music with the PS Audio PerfectWave SACD Transport in the chain. SACD (DSD) is on another level for digital listening. So I squeezed every ounce of music from Redbook and SACD (DSD) by using the PST connected to the PS Audio DirectStream DAC

      May 2, 2022  

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