A dedicated artists list similar to the default album presentation would be useful, but you can build your own using the columns browser. Personally, I wouldn’t mind a little more gloss on the presentation and a few more organization options. Fortunately, the Library management is decent, with a few caveats, so if you were satisfied with version 2.6, you’re not going to feel out of place here.
If you were expecting enhancements to library management or the playback interface, you’re out of luck. This is the part of the review where I attempt to mollify your expectations. There is no readily-visible changelog listing what’s new. Indeed, their posts are so infrequent, I probably would have missed it if I had.
#Audirvana plus same output software
There was no New Version Available announcement in the software itself and I didn’t follow it on Twitter or Facebook. I think it was January or February, I’m not sure. Version 3Īudirvana+ Version 3 was released with little to no fanfare earlier this year. I’m limiting this to just a few I’ve had experience with and one or two that come highly recommended by The Community. See the bottom of this post for a list of DACs you may want to check out. Audirvana does let you control the audio on the DAC itself, if it supports it via whatever internal mixing hardware it has, so that’s an immediate win. Generally, I only modify the volume on the amplifier or mixer, and leave my software volume control alone. You may need some sort of an amplifier to get the signal to your headphones or speakers, though most have line outs and a headphone port for direct listening. Having an outboard DAC lets you minimize a lot of the problems of computer audio playback, but requires extra hardware. Believe it or not, that little volume slider in iTunes attenuates the sound file in software, effectively reducing the amount of dynamic range you can play back in a recording. You can’t play DSD or FLAC files in iTunes (yet), and you don’t have any direct control over how iTunes sends those bits to the DAC, whether other applications can interfere with that stream, and how iTunes deals with the volume setting on your music. Now, onto the audiophile level nerdery…įirst, what it’s for: If you’ve got a decent outboard DAC (digital audio converter) on your Mac, iTunes isn’t going to give you the ability to make use of it to its fullest potential. Seriously, it’s the best way to see for yourself. That is especially relevant now that Audirvana has reached the shiny 3.0 milestone, with a whole new rendering engine and MQA support.įirst up, a link to the Audirvana product page for those who just want to go try/buy a copy. I still get a lot of hits on those articles, so I thought it was time for a follow-up on how that’s going.
Last year, around this time, I was about a month into my iTunes replacement experiment with Audirvana+.
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