There were some advantages in terms of detail resolution – the multi-tracked vocals on Christy Moore’s Ride On for instance – but there was a surprisingly bass light quality to the whole sound. Looking forward to hear some if not all of the advantages of the SoX oversampling I was in for a bit of a surprise – life is not all that stable for this combination but I’ll put that down to no longer having the Aries running on wired Ethernet but working wirelessly.
Audirvana plus review plus#
So I can finally use Audirvana Remote on my iPad to drive Audirvana Plus running on my iMac to feed my Auralic Aries Mini switched to UPnP mode (i.e.
Audirvana Plus 3.2 can now play to UPnP/DLNA network players. This is done in the Audio System Preferences section: ‘For bridge devices connected to a DAC’.Ī second major feature is the ability to benefit from Audirvana conversions on an unconnected Mac.
Some higher rate material has failed to play when upsampled to the theoretical 32/352.8 limit of the TEAC – the rate is shown as permissible in the SoX Preferences but no sound comes from the ampDAC unless I limit oversampling to a maximum of 192kHz. (Of course your mileage may differ.) The difference is to the note integrity, simple clarity and sheer listenability to my whole catalogue of CD rips – changes are not so great with true HD hi-res files but SoX has shifted the Redbook goalposts a major distance for me. Upsampling CD rips to drive my TEAC AI-301DA at 32/88.2 has made a massive improvement in sound quality. And much more so than the Ver2 to Ver3 ‘now we’ve got MQA’ release.įirst is the addition of a new sample rate convertor in the form of SoX.
But on the contrary it has proved to be something of a major step forward, for this user at least, both in sound quality and usability. The latest version of Audirvana was brought out over the holiday period with all the attendant excitement of a maintenance release.
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