![]() Roon is just a bit more rough and less spacious than its French competitor. ![]() Add to that a genius integration of meta-information and the excellent Roon Radio feature and you can see why we like it so much.īut if we switch from Audirvana to Roon, we must confess: Audirvana sounds better (juicier, if you will). For us audio-reviewers, it is ideal, because almost every player can be integrated which makes testing streamers very quick and easy: all stored playlists and services are available and there is a level playing field. It is very nice software and practically unbeatable when it comes to user friendliness. We have been avid users of Roon for years. This is hands down today’s test favorite. What a musicality Audirvana squeezes out of the bits and bytes of the audiotrack. However, in this setup with just a simple install on a non-tweaked Windows 10, it simply sounds very very good and simply put, we are impressed and pleased. Or perhaps a Roon Rock installation as an endpoint: that also sounds better in our experience.īut then, Audirvana will also benefit from some tweaking to the hardware and software. ROON can be taken to the next level, but requires some tweaks and tricks. Wow!… what a beautiful player this is! It performs better than ROON in this setup. In other words: plenty of options.Īudirvana brings the playback quality to a next level. By the way, Audirvana can also be controlled with other (UPnP) apps. Unfortunately, the Studio version cannot be purchased as a one-time purchase it only allows monthly or annual payment.īoth versions can be controlled with an app, though. The Origin version offers somewhat fewer features than the Studio version which does allow integration of online services. a fun amalgamation of audio and nirvana.Īudirvana comes in two versions: Origin and Studio. The next candidate is a software package from France: Audirvana…. How that’s possible is a bit of a mystery to us.Īll in all, this is a serious upgrade. Stevie Wonder is also at it again … it is much more of a party than with WMP where our ears really hurt: what a mess! With Foobar it has largely disappeared, although we must say: the whole thing still feels a bit rushed…. The harmonics of the piano are more audible (more reverb too), making the whole thing feel much more real and we become more involved in the playback. Mammal Hands sounds more calm and rhythmic. There is a much more airy stereo image and more refinement and fluidity audible in the soundstage. The step from WMP to Foobar is a big one. FoobarĪnd fortunately… Foobar does deliver! We used the ASIO plugin as well as the RAM buffer plugin to give the playback a bit of a boost. Actually, we are inclined to shut this media player down so we can move quickly to the other software. It sounds rough, edgy and flat.The music seems boxed and undone of liveliness. Windows Media Player frankly doesn’t make us very happy. ![]() Front speakers are set to full-range in the driver. We start with Windows Media Player in standard settings. The other two did not know so it is a blind test. One (Jaap) switched the applications and thus knew what was playing. But that will not soon happen at home, since it is unlikely that you both run ROON Bridge and JRiver and Audirvana and Foobar.įor this test, we just close the software over and over again, but you will see we still have to fix some issues every now and then during the stream. That gives occasional issues because sometimes the driver is not available. We use the Sonnet ASIO drivers to connect the Pasithea to the software. But the Titan is not in use, as the ASR is battery-powered. The Isotek Aquarius delivers clean power to the Sonnet. This amplifier drives our TAD Evolution Two speakers.Ĭabling is – as you may be used to by now – a mix of YETI power cables with Driade Reference Flow speaker cable and Grimm TPM interlinks. This Shuttle mini-PC runs a single USB cable to our Sonnet Pasithea d/a converter which then goes to an ASR Emitter 1 amplifier. Therefore, we set up a simple Shuttle mini-PC running Windows 10 on which we will install the software. We want to change as little as possible in this test.
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