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I feel like a toothless hillbilly - PW DAC

I recently purchased a PS Audio Perfectwave DAC with a Bridge. Everything I read in the manual before the unit arrived would end with something like; "and just plug it in and it will automatically download the drivers and take care of the rest".

Fastforward to today: unpacked the unit and connected the USB input on the DAC to my computer. Nothing worked on two different computers. The big problem I am having is that the owners manual seems to be out of date, and PS Audio is still improving it's latest offerings....but this is very different from the way it is portrated online. For the record, I sell hospital medical equipment and electronic medical records interfaces, so I am not a twit (though I am having my doubts now). The big problem for me right now would seem to be that there are so many connection options for the PW DAC that I don't know how to just play music off my computer.

Please tell me where to start (just to play music from iTunes):

1. Twonky
2. eLyric
3. iTunes
4. USB or CAT5 cable

I will be setting up a network later (which should be a laugh), but for now I just want to hear music!

Thanks in advance,
Jeff
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My take on it is that NO, you will not be playing through Itunes (don't know why you would want to...) elyric is downloaded to your computer-you can get it from the ps audio website. elyric "app" on itunes app store for $9.99 is downloaded to some sort of Iphone, Itouch, Ipad anything with a wifi connection. Elyric acts as the music server now (just like itunes). I am sure there are some other ways to do it, I don't know them though.

You load a library to the elyric software on your computer and control that library with your "Idevice".

As far as i can tell, Tag N Play does not exist. The PS audio instructions are terrible and really need updating.

I do not know how to hook up a hard drive direct to elyric to the router although I know it can be done. Just make sure you are "hard wired" with cat 5 from the router itself.

One other stumbling block for me.... Elyic could not find the DAC and I showed "no connection" on the bridge until i PULLED THE SD PROGRAMMING CARD OUT!!!! Eureka!!! Again, either that wasn't it or the instructions just suck and I got lucky. That's how I fixed my issue with the bridge not responding.

I have a Western digital 2 TB Raid drive I save all my music to. Called a "my book" or something like that. about $150 bucks. They all (unless solid state) make some noise so keep it in a closet or another room from your stereo unless you just don't care.

You can call me if you want 7169824189- chris
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