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Audirvana plus vs pure music1/27/2024 Audirvana takes a bit perfect sound and then adds its "special sauce". The support/sales ticket is even more clear. * really I'm not, I'm an agnostic here – both measurements and listening tests have their place the evaluation of audio equipment My one serious criticism of the built-in sweetening in Audirvana: Plisson should allow users to turn off the Audirvana filters with a checkbox to allow real bit-perfect playback. While a subjectivist* like me prefers bit-perfect! What a strange world. Still, I'm astonished to find so many Audirvana users among men of science though. Damien knows what his business as a coder and he's got a good ear. Oh, and my opinion, Audirvana sweetening is successful for most music. He could test Audirvana against foobar (which I also successfully tested on OS X for identical bit-perfect playback though the OS X foobar is a limited feature beta version). I'd suggest do some bit perfect playback tests between Audirvana and the applications I mentioned but Amir is a Windows lifer, considering his past. He mentions that he did the test with Audirvana playback. It surprised him in an otherwise perfect measurement performance. I can't find it out now, but has a test graph of stereo separation for one of the DACs he tested which shows a blurry line in the middle instead of a clean one. No bit-perfect player can sound better than another through the identical DAC unless that player is sweetening/treating the sound. Why do you think Audirvana sounds better? Because it's more bit-perfect? Surely you realise that bit-perfect is an absolute. I actually went to the trouble to compare them all before reaching this conclusion. Otherwise Audirvana would sound just like all the other (about half a dozen) bit-perfect players for OS X. How much more clear does it have to be? The publisher himself is claiming that he's sweetening the signal.Īs I mentioned, of course Audirvana is improving/sweetening the sound. Damien specifically answers a customer (in French, in which I'm fluent): Just get a decent computer, that's all.Guys read the thread more attentively please before barking. All of those Fidelizer-type apps sound like audiofoolery to me. You just need to make sure nothing is obviously fucking with your signal (like windows sound enhancements or unwarranted resampling), and everything should be fine. So in essence, I'm completely baffled by claims that the software used to play music can make a difference, or that there is some kind of system-wide optimization that can make digital sound better. But this is a general problem with USB connections, and no optimizing software can make a computer completely fail of glitch proof (whoever invents that will make a ton of money…). The only trouble comes once in a blue moon when either the Schiit Modi or the Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 decide to suddenly disconnect, and then I have to pull the USB out and back in again, and everything works. There is no such thing with the current machine. That’s the only instance in which I actually heard any form of digital sound degrading quality. My previous cheap Lenovo laptop worked fine with playing music, but during intensive real time effects processing in Audition I could clearly hear the pops and glitches as it was failing to process them in real time. It can process all the DSP in the world without breaking a sweat. The current computer is a beefy Windows 10 editing workstation with i7 7700k inside. By default, I ran everything through the windows mixer, and I configured the Schiit modi 3 DAC to play at 44.1khz, which is the sample rate of all the music I listen to. As long as it runs smooth without data errors (and playing the same file of course), it all sounds the same. I use Winamp for many years now, and compared to Tidal desktop app, Deezer app, playback straight from Audacity or Adobe Audition, I don't notice any difference. I use only my computer to play music because everything is stored there and it's completely reliable. This all sounds to me like much ado about nothing.
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