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1. #AMARRA VS AUDIRVANA VS PURE MUSIC PRO#
2. #AMARRA VS AUDIRVANA VS PURE MUSIC PC#
3. #AMARRA VS AUDIRVANA VS PURE MUSIC FREE#
4. #AMARRA VS AUDIRVANA VS PURE MUSIC WINDOWS#

See also XXhighend, cplay and meanwhile even J.River caught up for Windows based implementations. Your might also have look at alternative FOC OSX implementations:

#AMARRA VS AUDIRVANA VS PURE MUSIC PC#

The less stuff you got running on the PC the lower the impact on theĪnd that's exactly why you'll NEVER manage to get best sound from your Apple PC. The underlying rule behind those optimizations is: "less is more". there you'll find a lot of optimizations listed, which now went into those Apple players ( ramplayback,asf.asf.) ( I started with it 4 years ago in the "Linux audio the way to go thread" over here. It's a known fact and been discussed a hundred times that optimizations on the OS side will have a positive impact in sound-quality on the majority of audio interfaces. That must have been a shock for the audiophile Apple community, who believed that they were running the best OS ever (in audiophile terms) However Amarra showed that iTunes was not bit perfect and beside that ( Perhaps a typical Apple customer attitude to never feel being ripped off ) I never read complaints such as "rip off". The pricetag dropped heavily in shortest time as soon as Pure Music showed up. )Ĭan you imagine that people bought that plugin at such a pricetag.Īmara was first in Appleland of course. ( Great to have Apple customers around who pay what's being asked for. Until Amarra showed up ( last year) with an insane pricetag >1300$ for a bit of system tweaking and piggy backing on iTunes. Over years especially DAC manufactureres and Apple users where claiming how great and bitperfect iTunes was performing. Pure Music and Amarra are just piggy backing on what's been discussed and available under Windows and Linux for years. I an sure channel matching will be a hassle, but I have some "experimental" speakers and I really would like to see how the crossover stuff can help me design a better crossover. I don't have a multiband DAC and only just now have several USB inputs that are possible. I haven't had an opportunity to play with the crossovers in pure music. Both the TPA USB module and the Isabellina are limited to 44.1 Khz sampling. I am waiting on one of Jkeny's new modified M2 hiface USB to I2S, so that should be fun and allow higher bitrates and sampling. Sound is awesome, but I really haven't played with it much yet.

Buffalo II with Legato abd at the moment am using the TPA USB to I2S/SPDIF as I2S input to the Buffalo II. Sound is very nice, although Vinnie at RWA has been making dramatic changes to it and improvements. I have been using a RED Wine Isabellina (early model), a NOS battery powered DAC with USB input. i get the impression that it will continue to evolve.

I thought itunes was pretty good, but I guess, not so much.Īlthough i mentioned some issues with Pure Music, they are minor compared with the benefits and and you get an awful lot for your dime. Pure Music makes about the same difference as going from a lousy cheap DAC to an excellent high end DAC and you should do both.įor me, money well spent, but I hope there are user interface improvements, stability improvements and more options in the future. Overall, I highly recommend it! Amarra if you are a pro, but it is too expensive for me.

#AMARRA VS AUDIRVANA VS PURE MUSIC PRO#

Audio hijack Pro has a better interface for this, but doesn't have the sound quality. It has a limitation/oversite in saving equalization files, so you can lose data, but it sounds great and is very flexible. I am a fan of front end digital room treatment/equalization and this does that well. you can upsample, down sample and play native high sample rates. There are many, many featurse and options and you can add modules or use the supplied ones to digitally modify, equalize or even cross overs. The sound improvement is definitly worth minor inconveniences like that above and the learning curve. I have multiple instances where there is a glitch in how the itunes interface works and I gets pulsating bursts of incomplete music. you have lots of set up options and sometimes a small mistake will make something happen like not moving to the next track or something. There are definitly bugs in the interface. The "junior" and "mini" versions are so limited, you may as well buy Pure Music for $165 or so.Ģ. Amarra may be a little better sounding, but I didn't try that long because Pure music has a ton of features that Amarra doesn't, unless you perhaps get the $695 version. Astounding really, but you don't realize how poor itunes is until you try one of these programs. Definitly both make a positive difference. they may come slowly while I am at work.ġ. I don't know of others that play like this through itunes.

#AMARRA VS AUDIRVANA VS PURE MUSIC FREE#

They and Amarra have free trials, so you can check out any differences yourself. I have been using Pure music for a couple of months now.