Wadia
Wadia Digital are a high-end audio company dedicated to the development of digital audio technologies, have designed and have built the market’s first digital player dock to retrieve a direct digital signal from an iPod®. As a result, the audio signal remains pure and unadulterated, providing CD-quality resolution from full-resolution file formats such as .WAV and .m4a (Apple®Lossless).
It’s important not to underestimate this development for it transforms the expectations of what is possible with an iPod. That in itself is significant but the real kicker is that Wadia (who could never have been accused of underpricing a product) have made a point of making the iTransport genuinely affordable. At just NZ$850 it is going to introduce a whole new set of options to just about every iPod owner.
The iTransport works brilliantly in a whole lot of our systems - the new Perreaux eloquence amplifier connect directly via their inbuilt DAC. Quads multi-tasking CD player - the CDP2 - will also accept the digital output from the Wadia allowing you the best of both worlds (not to mention a digital preamp) And just about every Home Theatre receiver and preamp on the market has digital inputs
In simple terms, the iTransport give you all of the convenience of the iPod with the sound quality of a a good CD transport. Perfect!
The iTransport which is certified Made for iPod®, turns any currently available iPod player into a high-end media server by providing a bit-perfect digital audio output to an audio/video system, bypassing the player’s internal D/A conversion and output stage. Subsequently, the audio signal remains clean and unadulterated throughout the path. The iTransport is compatible with all currently available (Q1 2008) iPod players, as well as iPhone®and iPod Touch®models.
“Until now, there has been no real bridge between the convenience of an iPod and the high-end audio listening experience,” commented John W. Schaffer, President, Wadia Digital, Inc. “The goal of making the player a true high-end media server has been hampered by the need to send the digital signal through a portable player’s D/A converter rather than that of a high performance audio system. “Instead, we designed iTransport to bypass the player’s converter and output stage altogether. When used with an iTransport, the iPod becomes a digital music source equal to some of the finest sounding transports in the high-end audio market.”
Along with turning an iPod into a high-performance audio server, iTransport is one of the first such products to access video content stored on currently available iPods. Similar to the audio section, the video signal is made available via high performance component outputs that provide up to DVD-quality video. The iTransport measures 2” x 8” x 8” (H/W/D), making it an easy addition to most racks and entertainment centers. Wadia incorporates a bit-perfect S/PDIF digital audio output and high-resolution component digital video output, as well as analog audio and video outputs for easy connection with most audio/video systems. iPod players are charged while in the dock, and can be operated via Apple’s standard IR remote control. For more info visit the Wadia Digital web site.
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