Dswankey
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See louisjames below your post
Audiovarna? ok I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
See louisjames below your post
Audirvana, pulls from your iTunes, so it is semi seamless. Audirvana does take over iTunes and if you wish to use iTunes, the Audirvana app needs to be closed. The improvement in sound is impressive.I thought the comments and opinions on iTunes, jriver and Audirvana were interesting. I've always used iTunes, and at this point, it's pretty easy for me to get it to do what I want. But then, I'm not real complicated. Really not familiar with jriver and Audirvana. I'll have to check them out.
Audirvana, pulls from your iTunes, so it is semi seamless. Audirvana does take over iTunes and if you wish to use iTunes, the Audirvana app needs to be closed. The improvement in sound is impressive.
How? The app has one job: stream the bits you want to the toslink or the DAC. If it’s adding EQ it’s an effects processor, which is fine, but not the same thing.
Joel
This is what I see using Audirvana. I use Itunes for all management of song selection. With Audirvana you can use Apples drivers or Izotope 64 Bit. It's all in the manual.How? The app has one job: stream the bits you want to the toslink or the DAC. If it’s adding EQ it’s an effects processor, which is fine, but not the same thing.
Joel
Looks like there's gonna be a DAC added to my little system sometime soon
I am throwing a monkey wrench here, if you rip your CD using 3rd party software (XLD) instead iTunes makes the sound more natural, dynamic, and has less digital glare, great improvement!
If you are ripping to lossless it does not matter what you use, as the exact same bits are hitting the DAC. If you are ripping to a lossy codec, then sure, there can be differences.
Joel
You disagree. Fine, so... what exactly is the difference then?
The very definition of lossless compression is that when the compression is uncompressed the resulting bits are exactly the same as what went into the algorithm. If it does not do that, it is not lossless. Period. By the very definition there is absolutely zero difference in the output of both files.
Joel