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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 youve not yet heard. How do PS Audio know that? Because PS Audio, like you, know what to expect from PS Audio's reference discs. Imagine PS Audio's surprise and delight as the first notes played on PS Audio's new, galvanically isolated, PerfectWave SACD Transport. It was love at first listen. The PerfectWave SACD player is an engineering triumphour 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, whats long been unavailable to external DACs in these high-resolution discs.

Winner of the 2021 Golden Ear Award from The Absolute Sound

DESIGN
38 years after the introduction of the CD, PS engineers have continued PS Audio's 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 PS Audio's most advanced optical disc transport. New to this modeland for that matter, any disc player ever madeis PS Audio's 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 PS Audio experienced noise levels this lowa seemingly velvet blackness that must be experienced to understand.

APPLICATION
CD, data discs, and SACD reproduction is unequaled by any other player PS Audio 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.

Technology

OVERVIEW
If you are like most of PS Audio, 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.

GALVANIC ISOLATION
Unlike the relatively quiet environment enjoyed by analog electronics, digital audio equipment is inherently noisy. Digital timing clocks running at high enough speeds to mirror those of radio transmitters is a serious technological challenge when the goal is a quiet, jitter-free digital audio output stream. Engineers have worked for years with shielding and advanced grounding technologies in an effort to keep noise levels at legal levels (let alone quiet levels). The most effective means of removing noise is by physically distancing noisy components from quiet ones and most important, electrical isolation. The standard means by which digital audio subsystems are interconnected is by the use of wires in the signal and power paths. These interconnecting media radiate high frequencies throughout the circuit and make noisy environments worse. PS Audio's solution is to both physically and electrically isolate PST's output stage: no wires, no ground connections, no common power supply interactions. Inside PST there are two completely separated power supplies: one for the noisy electronics, a second for the quiet output stage. Signals are transferred by a form of focused beam short-wavelength radio signals between the two boards. The results are spectacular. With PST playing your discs, musical information once hidden by noise and jitter are free to come to life.

DSD MASTER LAYER
The Sony/Philips introduction of the SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc) in 1999 heralded a new format of high-performance audio. Not since the original introduction of the Compact Disc in 1982 had there been a major improvement in the performance of digital audio. With the SACD, digital audio took a major leap forward, surpassing not only the Compact Disc but, to many, the performance of analog. The technology behind the SACD is DSD, a high-sample rate (2.8mHz or 64 times that of a CD) 1-bit recording system that achieves 120dB of signal to noise ratio and dynamic performance without any hint of digital glare. Unfortunately, the DSD layer on SACDs is locked and cannot be extracted from the disc for playback on an external DAC. That was until the introduction of the PS Audio PerfectWave SACD Transport. PST is able, through the use of PS Audio's I2S output, to directly connect the DSD layer to a PS Audio enabled DAC. The results are breathtaking. Now, for the first time, SACD owners can connect directly to the master quality source locked onto the SACD's master layer. This is a major triumph for music lovers around the world. Hear for the first time what mastering engineers get to enjoy. The pure DSD Master layer.

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