Perfect Wave SACD Transport sold out - any plans?

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I just got aware of it: The wonderful sounding PST seems to be sold out. Are there any plans at PS Audio to build a successor? …

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Marantz has discontinued the transport that is the heart of the PerfectWave SACD Transport–PS Audio has a supply for repairs and replacement, but will not build new Transports as a result of the discontinuation.

I haven’t heard them announce a successor or a plan to build one. In the world today that fosters moves away from disc recordings. . . who knows whether they’ll continue to design products along these lines. I hope they may.

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There are and we’ll let you know when we’re ready to launch, probably sometime in April as Axpona nears. As has been previously mentioned, we have only a limited number of SACD drives stashed away as the manufacturer announced they were discontinuing them.

Stay tuned.

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Is (was) there only one manufacturer of SACD drives?

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Thank you very much indeed. I’ll keep an eye on it …

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No, but the advantage is having the license to transmit the raw DSD data from the transport. PS Audio could use the Oppo Audio license until that manufacturer desisted, and now is utilizing the Marantz. I know Luxman makes an SACD drive.

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Understood. Thanks Lon.

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Here we ago again. Seems like only yesterday I traded in my DMP for the PST because i didn’t want to end up with an expensive paper weight down the the road. Deja vu

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