![]() ![]() Cost for those wishing to purchase is $74 for new customers, $39 for upgrade from a previous version of Audirvana Plus, and gratis for those who have purchased Audirvana Plus 2 since December 25, 2016.Īudirvana will not be alone in offering MQA Core decoding. Optimal sound quality is achieved with an MQA-enabled DAC, which will continue to unfold the file "with precise file and platform-specific DAC compensation and management." Clarification on what all this means follows.Īudirvana offers a free 15-day trial version of Audirvana Plus 3. Thus, even without an MQA-enabled DAC, listeners can expect to hear enhanced sound. The MQA Core decoder's initial file "unfold" is claimed to recover all direct music-related information and make it available for either analog or digital output at 88.2 or 96kHz. is anywhere near as extensive as what Roon currently offers is another matter. Whether Audirvana's latest library management system etc. In addition to optimizing sound quality and authenticating file provenance, Audirvana Plus 3 claims to include "a complete library management system with full metadata and cover art display" for music that is either stored locally or streamed, and integration with premium streaming services such as Tidal and Qobuz. To quote the press release, issued jointly by London-based MQA and Paris-based Audirvana, Audirvana's MQA Core decoder "enables the first origami 'unfold' and also authenticates the file using a blue or green light to confirm that the sound is identical to that of the source material." I don't need the hassle.The recently-released Audirvana Plus 3 has become the first desktop music player for MacOS to include an integrated MQA Core decoder. I play Jriver, Roon, VLC without the problems of Audirvana. I know and appreciate some of you will find Audirvana works fine, you're fortunate that it works, and it must be something wrong with my system. If Audirvana was as reliable as Roon, I would use it more often, but now I'm very tempted to remove Audirvana altogether. Some operational 'features' with Roon are annoying, but not to the extent of how Audirvana can fall over. I don't have SQ or transport issues with Roon, there's no upsampling, EQ, DSP, just playback as is. In this case, restart the Roon core and all good. ![]() If Roon falls over and this is very rare, the output is muted with file playback just stalling. Quit Audirvana, and played Roon without issue. It's not as if it was a hardship to play a redbook album. Imagine if the levels were straight to a power amp, blown tweeters to replace. Let the system stay idle for a few hours then played a redbook album, 5s of music then white noise from the speakers. ![]() Played a few albums while doing some chores, all looked good. used Jriver to find recently added and manually searched in Audirvana. The recently added titles are under playlists, but they're in alphabetical order, not from the filename date. Took about 15-20 minutes to sync the library adding some 50 albums or so, mainly redbook, nothing happens until the sync has stopped. I don't use Audirvana every day, yesterday fired up the latest version on a Win10 PC, UpNP to a Lumin U1. I have about a week left on the Roon trial. If I don't keep Roon, it'll be because I'm too set in my ways. It'll come up with lots of suggestions and its search function is great, but it is just not the same. The negatives are that for a long time I have primarily selected my music via folder browsing - I'd see an artist's name and say, "Yup, that's the person I want to hear right now." Roon doesn't show folders. It is also nice the way it shows you artist bios and info about other musicians and people on an album, sometimes along with an extra photo or two, but that's not worth a paid subscription to me. That's great when you want continuous background music, such as now when I'm working from home. The thing I like the most is the way, once you have specifically selected some music to play, it will continue to play other tracks in the same vein one your initial selections are finished. ![]() I have mixed emotions about Roon and still haven't decided if it is a keeper. To me, the choice between Roon and other music management programs is about the user interface and the ease of finding the music you want. I know that's not the correct "audiophile" answer, but I don't care. I'll start by saying that Roon sounds just fine, but I find it no different than what I heard via LMS. I previously used LMS (the Squeezebox management software) to manage my music - I'd used that for about 15 years. I know nothing about Audirvana, but am now three-fourths the way through a month-long trial of Roon. ![]()
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