About : The ultimate CD transport

There are lots of listening options available to music lovers these days — smartphones, portable MP3 players, even Internet radio on our computers — but when we have time to devote our full attention to the music, most of us still turn to our trusted collection of CDs for the best sound quality possible. Yet even CD sound leaves many audiophiles cold, not always delivering the natural warmth and richness of the finest analog and high-resolution digital music sources, such as vinyl or SACD. PS Audio says, don't blame the CD, blame the player. Years of digital playback R & D led them to create the PerfectWave Transport. This revolutionary disc player will extract both standard and high-resolution audio stored on your CDs or DVDs, and send it as bit-perfect digital audio data to your favorite outboard digital-to-analog converter for a sonic experience that you'll have to hear to believe. Here's how it works.

Transport gut shot

Each beautifully crafted Transport is individually hand-built by PS Audio in Boulder, Colorado.

A better way to spin your discs

When a CD player reads music off of a disc, it's far from the surgically precise process it might seem to be. All kinds of things can go wrong — imperfectly stamped discs, wobbly or eccentric discs, scratched discs that scatter laser light, etc. These imperfections wind up interfering with playback, creating errors in the timing of the data stream called "jitter" that can adversely affect sound quality. Jitter can make music sound harsh and edgy, and smear subtle details. Standard CD players compound this problem because they only get one chance to read a disc, errors and all. From there on any unwanted artifacts introduced into the data stream have to be corrected by a software error correction process. That process isn't perfect and it too can degrade sound quality.

PS Audio developed a better way to get the music off your discs. Its PerfectWave Transport takes many of the problems faced — or created — by standard players, and eliminates them. Instead of reading a disc just once, it can re-read a CD or data DVD as many times as needed to capture the music with 100% precision, eliminating the need for error correction. The bit-perfect music data is then separated from the digital clock signal and collected jitter-free by the Transport's Digital Lens, a 64MB internal memory buffer that temporarily stores the music in raw digital form without any embedded clock data or reference to time.

Finally, the music information is retrieved from the buffer by the Transport's separate high-precision timing clock and then passed through the Transport's digital audio connections to your DAC with perfect timing and extremely low jitter. And if you're connected to PS Audio's PerfectWave™ DAC via HDMI, your music even comes through completely jitter-free. You'll hear stunning levels of detail and transparency, along with a sense of "realness" on every disc in your library.

Please note: I am selling this item as is, and will be happy to answer your questions. You get the exact item in the photos.

Condition: It is still in the original box, and as you can see from the photos, still has the factory plastic wrap on the top. The unit itself is in great shape with no scratches. I will ship it in it's original shipping box as shown in the photos. This item powers on as you can see in the photos. 

I am selling the record collection and audio equipment from the private residence of a lifelong record enthusiast. Now in his later years, he has decided at last to sell his collection. He took care and joy in maintaining his record collection and always used hi-quality equipment.  

You get the exact item in the photos. I personally handled it as little as possible.

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Will ship safely (as always). 

*This item does include shipping insurance.