PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade


Paul McGowan has leaked some information about a major upgrade the perfectwave DAC that will be coming out within the next few weeks. Pricing as of yet unknown, but current units will be field (DIY) upgradable.

Apparently, major changes were made to the digital processing board, involving changes in the powersupplies, and replacement of CMOS switching for the gates and clocking with analog switches.

Second, new jitter reducing circuitry called NativeX was implemented.

There are more as of yet unannounced new features.

Apparently, SQ on all inputs will benefit, including the bridge. Exciting stuff.
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Showing 3 responses by lewhite

I am under the impression that native and nativeX are two different things. Is not native a bypass of the sample rate converter; and nativeX a fifo buffer aka digital lens that resides close to dac processor chip instead of in the transport?
Would it matter what rez would come out of the SS? Native is still native. Transcode on the fly at the SS shouldnt matter either. Right?
Ben maybe my post was not stated correctly. What I was alluding to was the case of uprez ripping then played replayed sans src; vs. a bit perfect rip and uprezed at the dac? Hope thats not too incoherant.
Whats your favorite digital cable?