What a difference! Have a license for the Audirvana, doesn't sound anything special. Downloaded the free 30-day trial of Audirvana Studio. So much better audio wise. Using Campfire Audio to MacBook Pro. Anyone else hear the difference?
Interesting…. I bought a life time license some time ago and was not going to pay on a monthly subscription model too. I wonder what the improvement actually relates to…?What a difference! Have a license for the Audirvana, doesn't sound anything special. Downloaded the free 30-day trial of Audirvana Studio. So much better audio wise. Using Campfire Audio to MacBook Pro. Anyone else hear the difference?
Well actually Audirvana does a lot more than just bit perfect playback.Does Audirvana give you bit-perfect playback? If it does, then it is doing the same as Foobar2000 with ASIO or WASAPI drivers enabled.
What exactly does that add though? Surely bit-perfect is as good as it gets, the ones and zeros delivered to your DAC entirely unadulterated.Well actually Audirvana does a lot more than just bit perfect playback.
It optimises the entire operating system for audio playback and disables non essential services. Plays from RAM too. 🙂
If only that were true… 🙄What exactly does that add though? Surely bit-perfect is as good as it gets, the ones and zeros delivered to your DAC entirely unadulterated.
Well with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 8 core 16 thread CPU, processor load is a non issue, as is jitter as it's taken care of by my DAC/headphone amp. Variations in CPU load during playback will be beyond Audirvana's control as they will be caused by the operating system and other software. Stability of pawer supply is ensured by buying a good quality PSU for your PC, which I did when I built my PC.Audirvāna loads, decodes and processes the entire audio data of a track prior to playback in a buffer memory.
This limits processor activity during playback and protects the music from playback jitter and possible signal interference by stabilizing the computer power supply and limiting processor activity to the bare minimum: minus 0.5% CPU load less than 0:5% of CPU load.
What definitely could affect the sound is the filtering done with oversamplingWell with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 8 core 16 thread CPU, processor load is a non issue, as is jitter as it's taken care of by my DAC/headphone amp. Variations in CPU load during playback will be beyond Audirvana's control as they will be caused by the operating system and other software. Stability of pawer supply is ensured by buying a good quality PSU for your PC, which I did when I built my PC.
The rest of the quote has a feel of the same kind of, blind the customer with pseudoscience waffle, that high-end cable manufacturers use. I did however try running the free trial, except Audirvana refused to allow me to add my music to it's library. The instructions online state that one should click the "add a folder" button under "local", there was no such button and I am really not bothered enough to do anything about it. Foobar2000 just works and works well.
Because it isn’t.Why is it not?
Well that says it all………🙄I did however try running the free trial, except Audirvana refused to allow me to add my music to it's library. The instructions online state that one should click the "add a folder" button under "local", there was no such button and I am really not bothered enough to do anything about it.
Indeed it does, I don't pay for software when the free trial doesn't work properly!Well that says it all………🙄
One thing a computer is designed to do above all else, because otherwise it simply would not work, is work with ones and zeros without them becoming corrupted.If you don‘t accept that a computer is the worst place for digital audio because of contaminated power supplies and electro magnetic interference….and believe ‘bits are just bits’ then nothing I say can persuade you differently.
So you don’t understand the difference between transferring a digital file (i.e. A picture) and playing digital audio…..One thing a computer is designed to do above all else, because otherwise it simply would not work, is work with ones and zeros without them becoming corrupted.
What you mean is…”I didn’t actually try the software because I couldn‘t see how to add my music library…and gave up.”Indeed it does, I don't pay for software when the free trial doesn't work properly!
I really don't care what you think but, I followed the instructions provided on the website. I do not pay £64.99 per year for software when it doesn't work properly and, when free software works and, works well.What you mean is…”I didn’t actually try the software because I couldn‘t see how to add my music library…and gave up.”
Shame you (rather immaturely) feel ‘insulted’ when someone expresses a different opinion. I had no trouble with the Audirvana software…but you were ‘not bothered enough’ to implement it.I really don't care what you think but, I followed the instructions provided on the website. I do not pay £64.99 per year for software when it doesn't work properly and, when free software works and, works well.
Don't expect any further responses, I'm done with this and, done with this website. Too many idiots who stoop to insults when they don't get agreement.
Reading this thread back, Tinman1952, I suspect that it's not the fact that you are expressing a different opinion. It's your tone when you do it.Shame you (rather immaturely) feel ‘insulted’ when someone expresses a different opinion. I had no trouble with the Audirvana software…but you were ‘not bothered enough’ to implement it.
This forum is about the exchange of information, experiences and knowledge. If you find that uncomfortable then that’s unfortunate.
Sorry I have to disagree. Nothing wrong with my tone….remember it wasn’t ME who called the other ‘idiot’…..Reading this thread back, Tinman1952, I suspect that it's not the fact that you are expressing a different opinion. It's your tone when you do it.
'Say what you mean, but don't say it mean.'
Now that's a unique 1st ever post.
Now that's a unique 1st ever post.
I had to look that up to get the relevance 🙂Lovely to finally have David McAlmont contributing to the forums.