I couldn’t hear any difference, except for a slight difference in “colour”.
I’ve compared playing music on the Mac via the Duet (serving as 192kHz max DAC) to playing the same CDs on a Denon DCD-2500NE SuperAudio CD player. The quality of Audirvana’s output, especially with all macOS services disabled, has always been the best I could ask for. I’ve played CDs converted to 44.1kHz AIFF and digital files in a broad range of formats, including DSD 256, FLAC and now also MQA-encoded FLAC. I’ve listened to music on anything from a pair of AudioEngine speakers to the Eclipse I had on loan, as well as a pair of Sennheiser HD650 headphones. I have been using previous versions of Audirvana Plus in combination with an Apogee Duet iPad/Mac and other DACs for a couple of years now. Automatic volume levelling, with ReplayGain and Loudness Dynamic Range analysis using the EBU R128 standard, and the DR rating.SysOptimizer disabling the macOS background services potentially interfering with sound quality.Multichannel playback on multichannel devices.
64-bit internal processing of the audio signal (when processing is needed).The bypassing of the CoreAudio high-level processing of the audio signal.Some other technical feats you may expect from Audirvana Plus include: The new version also supports HighResAudio’s Virtual Vault system. Its previous version supported Qobuz and Tidal. But whether you’ll hear a difference is an entirely different matter, as is the question whose interests MQA is set to serve.Įxcept for its capability to render downloaded audiophile music, Audirvana Plus has always been at the forefront of support for streaming high-quality music. Audirvana Plus 3 is the newest version of this audiophile software and it is the first to include the ability to play MQA encoded files. Many, myself included, would say it is the best - period. One of the best audiophile players for the Mac is Audirvana Plus. Review: If you are after the highest quality audio playback you can possible muster, the latest version of Audirvana could be right up your street.
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