- #Amarra vs audirvana 2017 install#
- #Amarra vs audirvana 2017 upgrade#
- #Amarra vs audirvana 2017 software#
I still run both - it’s just that Audirvana merely plays from Qobuz or Tidal and Roon plays either of those + my media library.
I don’t notice a huge difference in the sound - other than Audirvana does sound marginally smoother, marginally, I have noticed that but it’s really a secondary consideration. Media library management (or purely loading the damn library) was the only reason for me to switch. Roon does not hang at all and can very happily manage large media libraries. Anyway, the hangs became such a problem that I was forced to look for alternatives and found Roon. My media library is stored across a bunch of USB 3 external HDD drives and my music rig is a MBP 2015 (i5, ssd, 8gb ram) and only runs Audirvana.
#Amarra vs audirvana 2017 software#
I enjoyed Audirvana very much until, as my media library grew, I noticed constant hangs with the software loading the library.
#Amarra vs audirvana 2017 install#
I recently spent some additional coin on converting my lic from Mac-only to cross-platform so I could install on Win 10.
#Amarra vs audirvana 2017 upgrade#
I started with Audirvana back in 2017 (v2), I’ve had a free upgrade to the latest version ever since. I’ll probably pick up Audirvana here soon, I like Roons service, but my actual FLAC collection wouldn’t do its service justice. Any above statements are based off audio memory (which humans are notoriously bad at on the averages). Also, I have not done this with Roon and Audirvana. Once again this is just my experience and not without faults or bias. I can usually, but not always spot smaller changes. One thing I’ve found that helps me personally to spot a difference is total immersion for preferably a week, than switching back to the previous norm I’ve established. Waiting for luggage… So, I think (not a scientist or engineer) based on my limited experience in this field/world…that software based players fall in the realm of DACs…but, further removed and even less of a difference in sound difference.īut, that being said, they still can have a noticeable difference, for better or worse. Getting off plane…I’ll try and revisit later… I think these things fall into the realm of being that final 1-3% improvement realm (arbitrary % so don’t go quoting me lol).
I think the long and short of it is, for me, if there IS an improvement in A+'s sound then eitherī) The improvement is so small that I won’t be giving up Roon’s user experience for A+. I may have heard differences, but I don’t know if I really did, and while I don’t think I did, it’s possible they were there. When it was disabled, it made noticing any perceived differences way harder.īasically, I think the differences are completely in the realm of placebo and confirmation bias plausibly being the only difference between the sound of these two programs on my system. Honestly, I think I can chalk up the differences to mismatched volumes thanks to turning on the ReplayGain. Sometimes it just sounded a little softer. Note - I can’t say it was always different, or that it was a bad different, or even a good different. So, enabling up-sampling and “preserve album dynamics” did have an audible effect while DIRECTLY comparing playback to Roon.
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