As both of the programs offer free limited-time trials, I suggest you try them both and see which one better floats your boat on your system with your ears. I also am using and LIO-8 and am driving the power amp directly with a MacMini as the server. I notice the times when I'm in another room, music is playing, and I have to stop what I'm doing and sit down in the listening seat - that happens much more often with Amarra than Pure Music. For me, Amarra is the clear winner now - better, more specific soundstage, and has more detail with even less digital nasties. Have been using it and Pure Vinyl since then, but decided to try Amarra again as both programs have been updated many times since my initial trial. I tried both programs a couple of years ago and decided at that time that Pure Music was as good and a lot less expensive. I currently use Roon almost exclusively, because it gives me the best experience.I think this is another example of "best" being what sounds best to you when listening with your ears on your system. Audirvana licensing is a per device only. The remote app for mobile devices needs a better user interface and more functionality, it’s a simple remote. The interface is practical not beautiful, version 3.5 will take care of the looks soon, it’s affordable and new major version updates are paid. It.s licensed in anual subscription model or a lifetime purchase optionĪudirvana is a simple audiophile player, it is very easy to use, install and configure, if you serve your music from a NAS scanning wil be slow, even navigation on your music library covers will be slow, the sound is also very good and more musical than roon, stability is good not on par with roon, support is noting to grab about. It’s a more complex piece of software, but very well made. You can serve your library to different devices at the same time and each one playing a different song including mobile devices, it gives the possibility of create various home users so they can have their own playlists and favorites. Roon is also very stable and sounds very good, Mobile roon apps work perfectly and look good. Roon it,s beautiful, fast, features are added in a regular basis, Room support is very good and has a very active user forum. I find each software has good points and bad points. Can do this currently at home but I haven’t tried.īut as previous person stated if just going to use one computer, Audivana is best choice. Probably similar setup for android phones. Mobile support should be coming soon so can play your roon library on the go and if hook lighting camera connector and a dac to iPhone would be able to output MQA or upsample sound. Can also combine areas to play same music in more than one spot. Can play music on my headphone setup while my wife plays different music at same time in living room. I’ve also expanded to use an old iPhone and iMac to send music throughout the house. ![]() ![]() Roon also has its only upsampler that sounds pretty good. Roon just added MQA support so I can unfold MQA files and then have HQPlayer upsample. It could play ALAC files and Tidal thru HQPlayer. ![]() I then found HQPlayer and it sounded amazing but terrible interface and didn’t work with ALAC files. I then moved onto Audiivana and really liked it but always seems a little bright in my system no matter the setting. It seems that’s still the case with their latest software. ![]() I had older version of Amarra and it sounded great but had too many bugs.
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