Review: PS Audio PerfectWave DAC

As much as we fuss and nitpick and try our best to convey our weary sighs in print when faced with an overly complicated piece of gear, we CE journalists secretly thrive on troublesome installations. They give us something juicy to write about.

As sophisticated a device as the PerfectWave DAC is, it has no right being this easy to configure. I should have been able to eke a good 200 words at least out of setting it up for my home network. But no, the instant I plugged an Ethernet cable into the PerfectWave Bridge (a $799 add-on to the $2,999 DAC that transforms it from a traditional digital-to-analog converter into a networkable beast), the devices acquainted themselves with no effort on my part. Even downloading and configuring the company’s $10 tagNplay iPhone/iPod Touch control app was so quick and easy it hardly bears mentioning.

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