![]() ![]() Significantly perhaps re Roon’s interface, I don’t stream online, only from my own local store. ![]() As for sound quality, my own use of Audirvana is different, using it as a renderer feeding by USB direct to a DAC, not using it as a UPnP server. In particukar Roon was not as good as Audirvana for music with poor or missing metadata, which is a problem from which my collection suffers. I prefer Roon’s interface 100 times more than Audirvanas.Īs far as sound quality, to my ears I found there to be no difference at all.Īlthough I use Audirvana in preference to Roon, I don’t much care for Its interface: indeed its latest incarnation to me was a downward step - however, I didn’t find Roon an improvement despite its cost, the features that Roon fans clearly like not being beneficial to me. Roon’s is much more logical, more about the artist and the music and the formats. I have Audirvana which I can use for critical listening using dlna targets and Plex that I can use for casual multi-room listening and listening out of the house. I currently have a Roon subscription that expires in about 6 months. I found Audirvana’s control software to be clumsy (especially in the distinction between Qobuz and Local) and the experience to be iTunes like - not in a good way. I am a current Roon subscriber but I never use tags. Everything was equal except the server software (and remote software control). I did A / B testing between Roon 1.7 Core and Audirvana 3.5. Audirvana was running on the same system as supports my Roon implementation (a dedicated 2017 Apple MacBook Pro 15” / 3.9Ghz quad core Intel Core i7 running MacOS X Catalina with 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD / USB 3.0 direct attached Seagate 8TB (160MB/S) Music File Store through Audioquest Jitterbug). Music (a selection both hi-res and cd-quality FLACs of local origin as well as from Qobuz) was sent to the NDX2 from Audirvana as a UPnP stream. I used the Audirvana remote app on iPad and sent a set track list to my NDX2, which is connected to my 252/SCDR/300DR B&W 805D3 Prestige Edition set-up. A two-tiers subscription model, where you can pay more if you need web-based services, but you can also pay less, if you don’t need them.Last night I set up Audirvana, pointed it at my NAS library and my Qobuz subscription. A wishlist website where customers who support the business can submit requests, vote for them, see the upcoming new features ahead of time. A decent permanent license software that works. I am sorry to say that for me to be willing to commit to a subscription-based model, the bar should be raised higher: no way to parse all metadata, only the main ones. It plays only the selected track and then it stops, I can hardly believe it works this way. ![]() Poor display of metadata, with inline scrolling and poor usage of screen estate. no way to jump backward/fwd in playback using arrow keys, which is the minimum I’d expect from a music player. Search by name is broken, you select one album in the search results, and it still takes you to a list that includes all albums, so you have to choose again. Those like me who supported Audirvana+ over the years are now left with two choices: pay a high monthly fee for a service they don’t need, or keep using Audirvana+, aware of the fact that it’s not going to get any support and improve over time. And again, we liked Audirvana more than Roon. But apart from Apple Music, Roon and Audirvana were outstanding. This could be the power supply, the operating system. To cut a long story short the MacBook Pro performed better than the standard PC. A large portion of the UI in Audirvana studio is dedicated to streaming services that I am not interested in (considering the poor quality of masters you are going to get on those services), but you still have to deal with a UI and monthly-based subscription model that forces you into the online steaming model. This Macbook has Roon, Audirvana and Apple Music (the application formerly known as iTunes). Audirvana founder Damien may have done a fantastic job at developing the best music player on the market, but sadly, the software is plagued by usability issues and generally speaking, a mediocre user experience.
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