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 The big problem I am having is that the owners manual seems to be out of date, and PS Audio is still improving it's latest offerings....but this is very different from the way it is portrated online.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
jeffatus
You've bought some great equipment. You need to download PS Audio's eLyric and the iPad or iPhone or iPad touch app from the app store. You will also need to download eLyric for your pc from PS Audio you'll find at their ite under community. After all is downloaded, you will need to hook your storage and computer unit via Ethernet to the bridge. I'd turn everything off, then turn on the DAC and computer. Then run ELyric from your pc. You'll have to point eLyric to your music files. Once it finds them it will create a library and depending on the size it might take a while. After this is done start eLyric on your iDevice. All three devices should find and talk with each other. On your iDevice in eLyric you'll see a tab marked devices. You should see two PS Audio listings. One for he server and one for the renderer. Activate both. Now you should be able to get everything going. If no iDevice you'll have to run USB from your computer into the DAC. Use eLyric or the free version of JRiver to connect with your files. I've not used the USB but I'm pretty sure this should work.
Go to the PS Audio site and find Gordon in the community section he'll be glad to help or contact PS Audio themselves on Monday. There you can also download the latest manuals if needed.

Rest assured you have purchased one of the finest units of this type available. I've owned mine since it was first introduced and would not sell it for anything.
You can upgrade to the MK II version and have a SOTA DAC and server that competes with anything out there.
When I installed the Mk II upgrade to my PW DAC I could not use the usb connection from my computer until I downloaded driver software from the PS Audio website. Using the usb from my computer with Apple lossless cd derived files sound is excellent, not quite as good as the sound quality when using the bridge connected NAS but greatly improved over the original versions usb connections sound quality. The sound from the Mk II PW DAC is so good I wonder why I still tinker around with turntables, vinyl and such. Well I suppose because I can also get great sound from vinyl and tinkering can be fun.
Seems like a lot of trouble just to listen to music. My opinion,nothing more.