PS AUDIO 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.

Inizio modulo

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.

Features

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

Specifications