Using a PS Audio Perfectwave Dac as a music server

great thread and very timely for me as well. my bridge should be here in a few days. finally decided to make the leap into pc tunes (kind of a crawl in my case). am keeping my pwt until i feel comfy/confident with the pc set-up's sound.. think i have all the piece's in place?. just need to put it together later this week.

the master plan...

pc running vista. intel 1.8 p4 with 2gb ram and newly installed1T hd. have a linksys wireless n network in place and a wireless ethernet adapter ready in my listening room....that's currently plugged into my pwt. iphone has tag-n-play loaded.

still unsure what to do with all my i-tunes music??. have a 1000+ cd collection dying to be ripped as well. need to figure this part out eventually. not sure why, but i downloaded J River. trying to back track my research as to what exactly it's for lol!. (any help here would be great as well).

if any of you guys see a potential problem in my plans...please let me know. any other tips/advise would be great, as long as it's simple.

have always had a hard time with computers. been learning for months in hopes of pulling this off. if i'm never heard from again, you'll know the reason why =)

cheers
Lev

thanks guys. knew j river was something i wanted. just forgot why lol. been reading so much about this stuff the last few months, some of it went in and out.

just checked my itunes and they appear to be m4a files. understand that is not a good thing regarding quality sound. seems j river picked up all my itunes and is ready to play them.

thanks for the link Ben. i visit the psa boards from time to time but musta missed that post. very helpful.

bridge will be here thursday. will chime in eventually with my thoughts.

cheers

thanks everyone. got my bridge today. up and streaming in about 1 hour. amazingly easy process, even for a old computer illiterate fool like myself. can't comment to much on sound quality yet, but it sounds pretty good. will do some critical listening asap. need to upload some redbook tunes along with some hi-res dvd's before i can go there. will report back with my thoughts/opinions.

it just sank in how revolutionary these psa products (and others like it) truly are. listening to what you want, when you want it, at the push of a touch screen is remarkable (ok...so i'm late to the party). adding high quality hi res sound and doing so wirelessly, takes it to another level entirely. could be a game changer for me. if the sound quality is anywhere near my pwt, it will be for sure. trying to find the music you want to hear will be a thing of the past. one less reason to get off the couch. what's next?, a couch/bathtub combo? =)

cheers
Lev

Tag-n-play app issue's reared their ugly heads tonight. the app will change the player selection on its own....kinda like a delayed default or ghost switching it. if you're in the player screen/mode and catch it, you can reset the PWD as the player without interruption. if you're not watching it, it'll eventually stop playing and lock up. seems to do so about every 30-40 minutes or so??. will have to search the psa site for help or place a call. went into this with my eye's wide open. knew there would be glitches. if this is the worst of it, i'll be one happy camper.

the good news is it sounds fantastic!. having a PWT makes it very easy to a-b disc&transport vs computer. gotta say i'm impressed already. even with the limited time spent thus far, can already confirm it's gonna be close. will need to dive much deeper into different music to discover any differences. that in itself is a good thing imho.

cheers

thanks Steve, that took care of most of it. seems it needed an update as well. things are streaming smoothly. still have a problem with the tag-n-play losing my pwd if i stop using it for a while (1 hour or so?). need to re-power the dac to get it back on my player list. minor glitch that i'm sure will be sorted out.

i'm still in awe of what it's doing and how it's doing it. tried some hi-res tonight.....incredible!