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Cant wait for the new power amp. I wish the stack was produced at around the same time. That way consumers wouldnt have to wait for the release of the Power Amp if they wanted to purchae all three products.
The Perfect Wave Transport (PWT) connects to the Perfect Wave DAC (PWD) via a proprietary 12S bus connection carried by an HDMI cable. PS Audio's Perfect Wave I2S cable ($500) creates a superior connection between the components that is claimed to eliminate most jitter. The PWT plays both CDs and hi-res DVD-Rs from Reference Recordings and other companies. It also functions as a hard-drive player, reading the contents of a disc to its drive, and then playing the music back in presumably bit-perfect form.
Thanks to PS Audio's Dave Kakenmaster, who is pictured above, the contrast between the sound of Reference Recordings' famed recording of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances in CD format and hi-res master file format was ear- and mind-opening. I'm greatly looking forward to hearing more of this combo at home in the near future.