![]() ![]() Wasapi and Asio both also work stably and, frankly, sound just excellent as well. However, there is no reason not to use Kernel Streaming, so we just left it at Kernel Streaming for this review. Intro Is Audirvana For Audiophiles Can You Hear The Difference See Description Below My Own Devices Audio Channel 15.7K subscribers Subscribe 38K views 3 years ago UPDATE: I no longer use. We have listened and the differences are extremely subtle. The reason is that access to the sound card (or Mutec usb interface in this case) is even more direct. ![]() Audirvana itself recommends “Kernel Streaming” over Wasapi and Asio. Most important, of course, is the output of the music. Then Audirvana shows you the important elements of the interface. These basically consist only of indicating where the music is stored and possibly what the logins are for Tidal and Qobuz (in the case of the Studio version). You download the software, start the installation and simply follow the few steps. The installation of Audirvana is truly unprecedentedly simple. An excellent basis for getting started with Audirvana, as the livestream showed, since we used a standard Shuttle barebone PC. There are plenty of people who still have a laptop or older PC lying around somewhere. And it also lowers the threshold for many users. And that makes sense, since the Windows user base is a whole lot bigger. Audirvana will connect via UPnP to your device running HQP Embedded. You can run HQP Embedded on a separate computer, or as I did, on a Raspberry Pi 4B. Audirvana can now also be installed “just” on the PC. If you plan to use Audirvana in conjunction with HQPlayer, you need HQPlayer Embedded. Fidelia is outdated, though I like it’s sound. ![]() Both Amarra 4 and Audirvana have a functional iTunes integration mode. Amarra 4 Luxe sounds great, but can be buggy, though that’s improved lately. Im sorry, but I love natural sound, and for my taste and ears, HQPlayer sounds better always, even with or no upsampling to PCM or DSD. Of the others, Audirvana is the best programmed, but I personally do not care for its sound. However, that hasn’t been the case for a while now. When I listen to Audirvana VS HQPlayer using my 96khz PCM transfer (via Lavry Savitr ADC), I cannot say HQPlayer sounds better. So… it is entirely possible for changes in “data energy distribution” to be audible in the subjective listening experience even if the audio-engine is “bit-perfect”.The reason we haven’t reviewed Audirvana at length before is the fact that for a long time it was only usable on the Mac. As this “bit-energy” or “bit-density” flows through the hardware, it will have influence on hardware responses and the inherent capabilities of the components, sometimes taxing the power-structure at the component level, and triggering data interpretation anomalies, that precipitate audible influences on the final output signal. ![]() A “bit-perfect” software audio-engine is subject to the hardware platform system-level gremlins… like power-supply noise that precipitates clocking related gate interrupts, invoking error-correction requests, etc, subsequently precipitating jitter related phase anomalies in contextual harmonic, contextual dynamic and contextual spatial relationships… If the data flow is never distorted by the hardware system it flows through as a “perfect” transmission, end-to-end, you may then say what one perceives is “bit-perfect” or as close to perfect, this playback may be, given all of the potentials that must be overcome in the transmission and playback of the bits… The “energy distribution” of the final auditioned signal will be intrinsically tied to the integrity of the data flow. ![]()
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