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    I ordered one of these DACses and will post impressions, pics, and random musings here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Monkey View Post
    I ordered one of these DACses and will post impressions, pics, and random musings here.
    Look forward to your impressions. I only heard this dac when it was across from Headamp at CJ09. It sounded good to me but this is coming from a guy who can't hear the difference between my DEQ2496 and the BelCanto DAC3. Recently I've just been listening to the DEQ because I'm too lazy to surn the BC on and set it to the right input etc.

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    Sir Monkey, you're on the list for the P1u loaner program, are you not? I'd be very interested to hear how the two sound together. Especially with the JH13s (he said calmly as his bank account attempted to take its own life.)

    I've been interested in the PWD since I started reading about the Bridge music server add-on thingie. If they ever work out all the gremlins, that sounds like it could be a very sweet setup. On the PSAudio forums, their main guy (Paul, is it?) said that Apple Lossless files sounded significantly worse than WAV files in his test unit. I'd hope that is just a software/decoding issue that they can fix without too much insanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by macstah View Post
    Sir Monkey, you're on the list for the P1u loaner program, are you not? I'd be very interested to hear how the two sound together. Especially with the JH13s (he said calmly as his bank account attempted to take its own life.)
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    Great. Now I have to go shopping for tiny, little pants that I can put onto my credit card so it will have something to poop.

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    A large PS Audio box was just delivered to my office.

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    Hopefully our other PWD owners will join in here, too.

    Heh: Pefect timing. I don't think my unit has shipped yet...
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    Neither of you ballers got the transport?
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Monkey View Post
    Hopefully our other PWD owners will join in here, too.

    Heh: Pefect timing. I don't think my unit has shipped yet...
    I thought you had yours already.

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    Neither of you ballers got the transport?
    I didn't get the transport. All my cd's are on my drive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tyrion View Post
    A large PS Audio box was just delivered to my office.
    You ought to get some new cans to evaluate it with today, too.

    EDIT: Maybe tomorrow. At local sort facility last night.
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    This is a sweet piece of kit although that price tag certainly makes me take pause. I'll be following this thread with rapt interest.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/QKm6zDAb7G4&autoplay=1

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hopstretch View Post
    You ought to get some new cans to evaluate it with today, too.

    EDIT: Maybe tomorrow. At local sort facility last night.
    The HP-1 arrived. I was going to pm you but kept being distracted. Thanks!

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    The PWD is at home waiting for me to caress it.
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    Some tips for the new adopters. When you turn the unit on and the Initializing screen comes up touch the screen for a couple of seconds and the options screen will appear. On this you can adjust some things like the auto dimming feature and a few other behind the scenes things.

    I really like mine on Filter 3 with no upsampling but Filter 1 is the fancy filter with apodizing whatevers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadhead View Post
    Look forward to your impressions. I only heard this dac when it was across from Headamp at CJ09. It sounded good to me but this is coming from a guy who can't hear the difference between my DEQ2496 and the BelCanto DAC3. Recently I've just been listening to the DEQ because I'm too lazy to surn the BC on and set it to the right input etc.
    Try the two with a nice pair of studio monitors in a treated room. You may notice a difference in the resolution, frequency extension as well as tonality/neutrality. (the areas I thought it excelled nicely)

    At the very least, why not do your subconscious a favor and adhere to the placebo-affect inherent in listening to the more expensive gear?


    BTW, what do you vinyl owners have to say about how the PerfectWave compares to your vinyl rigs?

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    I believe this is the owner's manual.

    Edit: Oops ... wrong dac.
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    I keep reading the thread titles as "FS Audio PerfectWave DAC" me fail.

    Maybe I need to make the fonts moar bigger like Al's laptop

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    Damn that DAC is a wallet breaker...can't wait for preliminary musings
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    It can be found new for 2100-2200.
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    Quote Originally Posted by deepak View Post
    I keep reading the thread titles as "FS Audio PerfectWave DAC" me fail.

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