New OSX Opensource audiophile player : Audirvana

[Sasaki]

Audirvana sounded fantastic! Fairly transparent with hi-rez tracks. Smooth and realistic. Thank you for sharing.

 

 

[Sasaki]

New integer mode works great. First I tried using Wavelength Proton and the Proton sounded more transparent with integer mode. The difference is obvious I think.

Also I tried other DAC/DDC. I found Japanese Phasetech HD-7A and CEntrance DACport works fine with integer mode. But hiFace does not run in integer mode.  Music playback is normal but no integer sign on the panel and the debug log does not show that is run in integer mode. 

So I guess drivers also matter since both of HD-7A and DACport employs standard USB audio class driver. It would mostly be capable of run integer mode but custom drivers won't. (there could be an exception though)

HD-7A employs async transfer but DACport employs adaptive transfer so the transfer scheme does not matter here I think.