Audirvana music player full#
If you have a DSD DAC, you get full native DSD. Wide range of supported formats including AIFF, WAVE, AAC, MP3, FLAC, Monkey Audio APE, WavPack, Apple Lossless, DSD (DSDIFF including DST compressed, DSF, and SACD ISO images).ĭSD support works whether or not you have a DSD DAC. However the product is already a capable player with the following key features:ġ. So what does Audirvana offer? The Windows version is still to some extent work in progress and not yet as full-featured as the Mac version however the developers are promising to add the missing pieces later. This perhaps is a good reason not to play music directly from a PC or Mac but the counter-argument is that using your existing computer reduces the box-count (and expense) of streaming, and that the flexibility and processing power of desktop computer is handy too. This does not matter in most circumstances, but if you want the best possible sound and spend money on high-res downloads or streaming, for example, you want bit-perfect sound. Both Mac and Windows come with music players bundled with the operating system – in Apple’s case the mighty iTunes – but the issue which Audirvana addresses is that these players are about convenience and features as well as sound quality.Īnother problem is that the sound system in a modern operating system is complex and needs to support every kind of application while from the user’s perspective it should “just work” and this can mean compromises, such as resampling or normalizing the audio. The description there still applies: “No equalizer, no trendy special effects, just the music”.
Audirvana Plus, an audiophile music player for the Mac, has now been released for Windows.Īudirvana was developed in France by Damien Plisson, originally as an open source project (you can still get this here but it has not been updated since 2012).
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