Audirvana is also able to convert DSD to PCM for when your d/a-converter doesn’t do DSD. If it’s not audible either way, then who cares. Many converters will sound better when upsampling is done in the computer, but not all. Whether that’s useful depends on your d/a-converter. It can be set to do only power of two conversions, so 44.1 kHz files are converted tot 88.2, 176.4 or 352.8 kHz. You can have Audirvana oversample to the highest sampling rate your d/a-converter supports, using the incorporated Isotope 64 bit sampling rate converter. Typing Command-I brings up a metadata editor that also has fields for composer, conductor, ensemble, soloist, instrument, style and period, making it perfect for classical music. More criteria can be entered using boolean logic. You can easily search on a given track, artist, album or other field by entering the search string into the search field. You can play music by clicking on it but if you want to add to the play queue, you need to drag the additional tracks to the play queue map. When in track view you can sort on any field that’s displayed. The latter shows either all albums with cover art or all tracks. The left column lets you choose between the play queue and the library. Therefore version 2 also has its own, simple user interface. I believe that there was a disagreement with one of the other brands about a technology used (the aliases, if I remember well) that forced Audirvana away from using iTunes. Just copy the files to the directory that hold the music and they are automatically indexed.Īudirvana 2+ can work like Amarra and Pure Music and use the iTunes functionality for user interface. Audirvana and JRiver simply work with all popular audio files. Some programs, like Pure Music, lets you make aliases that trick iTunes in thinking FLAC and DSF files are AIF files. iTunes will not do FLAC or DSD in any shape or form. Two totally different programs, neither needing iTunes, with is a plus for me since I have a very large music collection, including DSF rips of my 500 SACD’s. So I kept using the two remaining: Media Center by JRiver, currently at version 21 and Audirvana 2+. But I can’t keep buying updates of all programs only to keep up to date with all. Like Amarra and others it uses iTunes as user interface and, again, the sound is excellent. Pure Music was disqualified since it fought with a video program that I need to use from time to time. That left me with three players that sounded about equal: Pure Music by Channel D, Media Center by JRiver and Audirvana+. Since I found several other players that sounded that little more sparkling, Amarra was dropped too. But I didn’t find evidence of that during measuring. It sounds a little rounded, as if there was a slight high end roll off.
The versions I used sounded refined and if nothing else had been around, I would still use Amarra. In the mean time there is a version that does room acoustics compensation and a version that plays Tidal.
I used two versions, the only difference being the higher sample rates made accessible or not. The third one I dropped might surprise you: Amarra by Sonic Studio.
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