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I am currently trialing it, having downloaded it onto my iMac which then connects to a NAS and streams via UPnP and Ethernet to a n hope that is the right description!
He will reply with great pleasure and will even tell you why he prefers it to Roon. The interface is ok for me as I mainly use it via the remote app. I am by no means the only one using Audirvana - indeed I first learnt about it through other forum members…. Anyway: I use Audirvana on a Mac Mini, using it as a renderer player - which is different from its use as a UPnP server, a relatively recent function it now offers.
My reason for using it is sound quality - when I first learnt of it, it seemed to be widely reputed to be the best sounding renderer you can get on a computer. But it does have limitations: the recently introduced sort by file location facility has improved it, but currently is not available through the Audirvana remote control app, but only on the main program - which I control remotely using VNC, and VNC control from a tablet or phone is not as streamlined as controlling with the app.
I use none of these. This requires El Capitan IOS software, not later, otherwise requires a kernel work-around because Apple blocked the ability to use direct mode in later OSs.
It is a combined music store and player, with no network in use when playing music. However it has a very good reputation from what i heard. I find JRiver MC better in this respect. Sonically I cannot tell them apart in my Chord system. JRiver does not support Tidal or Qobuz so if you need these then it may not be for you. It may support Amazon HD soon. JRiver will handled photos and films if that is of interest.
I use it in Audio only mode. JRiver has an excellent remote which works on almost any device with a web browser. It supports zones and you can set parameters such as room correction for each zone. JRiver has more features, but you may not need them. As a UPnP server the sound quality advantage of Audirvana as a renderer is lost, and the only thing thing it has going for it that few others have is the incorporation of Tidal, Qobuz and HiRezAudio online streaming, including first MQA unfold on tidal, for anyone interested in those.
And some people have reported a mismatch with Naim streamers and Audirvana as UPnP server, possibly because it is not a straightforward fileserver. Rjt36 : I keep it as a backup, and benchmark, because it genuinely sounds great — better than the same Mac playing from iTunes. I play from backups stored on a USB-attached hard drive. Thanks ever so much to you all.
I feel a bit out of my depth with all your extraordinary technical knowledge. But the organisation and visual representation of the nas drive and tidal on the Mac is quite nice.
Is there a link or previous topic that might help me think about what I might need to do to get Audirvana to run as a renderer in the way described by members? My current set up is a nas connected to my router via a Cisco switch , which is then via Ethernet cable to my nac in a different room. My iMac is close to the nas and router and again is Ethernet connected to the router. I run it on a headless Mac Mini into my N Also find that Tidal operation is typically more stable through Audirvana versus the Naim app Android.
You can apply the same audio optimizations as it goes out via USB or optical. Simply because when functioning as a UPnP server it is serving the file to the streamer, and the rendering of the file into a real time digital music stream is done by the receiving streamer, so Audirvana itself is not doing the rendering, and the quality of the rendered digital music stream as fed to the DAC is primarily due to the streamer not Audirvana.
Primarily , yes — but not entirely. I tried it sending the audio to the NDX wirelessly. I used optimised sound in the settings and played Tidal. The NDX showed the songs as wav and not flac why I think it must have done some rendering. But I must admit, I might be wrong. I think Audirvana in UPnP mode actually apples your audio settings such as upsampling, equalizing, etc.
It is not really a simple pass-through as someone here said. Nope, you need to select Audio Settings, there is a whole host of settings for UPnP mode plus others, from upsampling including DSD, 24 bit vs 32 bit, signal polarity settings, audio units, audio volume, upsampling algorithms, etc.
Audirvarna Streaming Audio. I am by no means the only one using Audirvana - indeed I first learnt about it through other forum members… Anyway: I use Audirvana on a Mac Mini, using it as a renderer player - which is different from its use as a UPnP server, a relatively recent function it now offers. Many thanks again. Yes I know but I am referring to the system optimization only. I have upsampling off.
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