Jon Iverson

I've always maintained that whatever the mass market selects, audiophiles then perfect. Meaning that we make silk purses out of the format sow's ears thrown our way.

PS Audio is also showing a prototype of the new PerfectWave DAC/pre, also slated for around $2999, and sporting a touch screen. There are four HDMI imputs on the back (only compatible with their I²S flavor of HDMI) and a touchscreen on the front for controlling volume and such.

Last year PS Audio <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2008/010808psps/">teased us</A> with a prototype disc player called the memory link which never quite made it to production. Instead, the company evolved the idea further and created a new line of products branded PerfectWave.

Earlier this year, in an <A HREF="http://cgi.stereophile.com/cgi-bin/showvote.cgi?551">online poll</A>, we asked the magazine's readers if they were ready for a music server. The response was startling: 32% of you had already set one up, and 44% were ready to. Only 7% responded "probably not" or "never." In the polls we conduct online, we rarely get this kind of positive consensus about <I>anything</I> audio.

Throughout 2006 and much of 2007, we got the feeling at Stereophile that most audiophiles were scoffing at the idea of a music server in their system.

Audiophile Rob Smith stopped by to absorb some green dots by the record stacks.

Michael Alazard and pal.