![]() ![]() Per the Facebook live stream that ran last Sunday and has since been archived on YouTube (see below), Audirvāna Studio also brings with it a revised company name: Audirvāna note the accent above the second ‘a’ that ever-so-slightly extends its pronunciation whilst proving too much for the Google font used on this website. This, in turn, reduces the amount of electrical noise spilling from the PC/Mac’s USB port and into the noise-sensitive DAC. JBy Lam Seng Fatt Audirvana has recently launched Audirvana Studio to replace its Version 3.5. An additional oversampling algorithm, “R8Brain”, has also been added to allow users more options in optimizing the interaction with their system and converter.” What is Audirvana A music player that improves the audible quality of any PC or Mac’s USB output by lowering system resource usage during playback. Mac users are not left out as Audirvāna Studio is already natively compatible with Apple Silicon and makes the most of Apple’s latest generation of processors in terms of audio performance. ![]() This avoids all intermediate software layers. At the very least it puts an end to the myth that a dedicated streamer is always better than a laptop playback.Marking ten years in the music playback software business, Damien Plisson and his team have announced the forthcoming availability of Audirvāna Studio, the latest version of their desktop music playback and library organisation software.Īs part of a ground-up rebuild for both Windows and MacOS, Audirvāna Studio reportedly more tightly integrates locally stored content with that delivered by Qobuz, Tidal or offers better smart search adds 120,000 Internet radio stations and podcasts brings new remote control apps (iOS/Android) into play offers an enhanced metadata editor and – plot twist – promises an audio profiler that will weed out upsampled content.įrom the press release, “Always at the forefront of audio performance on a computer, Audirvāna Studio exclusively offers Kernel streaming mode on Windows 10: an incredibly transparent playback mode, as close as possible to the machine language. Obviously all these differences are very system dependent. ![]() The Node app is, unsurprisingly, much better than the Audirvana remote app, and it looks nicer on my rack than an old laptop, but I don’t mind stepping to the laptop and using the keyboard to play things. They both sound great, but I’ll keep with Audirvana since I think it sounds a bit more pleasing to my ears and it’s easier to navigate the HiRes files on my hard drive. I’d say that the optical connection distilled the differences between the two playback sources even more. The optical out sounded great and had a lot of rhythm to it. The coaxial sounded similar to USB, just with less top end. Audirvana’s sound engine has reportedly been completely reworked for MacOS v3. ![]() This was using basic cables.nothing fancy. I’d say if I just listened to Jazz, I’d give the edge to the Node, but for other types of music the Audirvana playback was richer and had more width and depth and was more extended on the top and bottom the frequency range. The Audirvana had a much larger soundstage with noticeably more air and deeper bass. The Bluesound had slightly crisper microdynamics, and with slightly darker backgrounds. Wondering what folks here thought about Audirvana Studio Mostly interested in sound quality and functionality issues (joys or complaints). I was struck that these streamers sounded different. Origin is 89 as an UPGRADE (119 as a new purchase), and is less functional (no. Posts 3 Likes 1 Location Hong Kong Its sad to see their new Studio software which is trying to rip people off with expensive yearly subscription fee that is equal to the lifetime price of the predecessor. I tested on Tidal only, on both MQA and non MQA tracks (which didn’t make much difference). Audirvana+ 3.5 was 79 for a perpetual license, and included streaming support. We guarantee 100 fully tested, native and true 24bit Studio Masters. So both systems are $10k-$20k.Īudirvana was set to not oversample or mess with the files at all. A recent post where bit perfect was mentioned also mentioned Audirvana. to music cost-effectively with the HIGHRESAUDIO-Streaming music-flat rate. One is an all Linn Akurate system, the other is Schiit monoblocks -> TA Criterion Speakers. I listened both using headphones and using my two loudspeaker. The rest of the digital system = Audioquest Coffee USB Cable -> RME ADI 2 FS DAC. There’s a lot of debate on this topic, so I thought I’d post my personal experience comparing Tidal playback on a dedicated Mac laptop (one of the vintage ones with a DVD-Rom) with Audirvana to a Bluesound Node as a streaming source. ![]()
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