Popular Post idesign Posted May 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 9, 2021 12 minutes ago, MemoryPlayer said: Good bye Audirvana, HQPlayer ONLY from now on! One of the reasons I stayed with Audrivana+ was because of its license model and AFP support. However, with it moving to annual subscription I am taking a hard look at moving back to HQPlayer and perhaps Roon. At the time I wasn’t utilizing all of Roon’s features to justify the annual price of admission but in my opinion it has a far better UI and more finesse. I see no reason at all to stay with Audirvana+. I empathize with the business reasons to adopt a subscription model for software development but they may have given up their single best advantage and differentiator. Zakus, lucretius and Giacomino 2 1 Link to comment
idesign Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 In light of the Audirvana Studio announcement, I decided objectively reevaluate Roon (v.1.8.790) after several years of not using it. There is a very apparent difference in the sound and I perceive to Audirvana (v3.5.44) to be darker and more faithful to the recording whereas Roon seems to be brighter and have a digital glare. I have not been very active on Audiophile Style and I am wondering if my impressions of Roon 1.8 are consistent with other members? Lastly, several years ago there were claims by other Chord DAVE+Blu Mk II owners that using Roon+HQ Player with the upsampling options disabled improved the sound quality of Roon-- can anyone confirm the merits of those claims? Audirvana Studio may be in my future -if- Damien can maintain or further improve the current sound quality over v3.5. Axiom05 1 Link to comment
Popular Post idesign Posted May 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 16, 2021 Having spent the day with Audirvana Studio and its eye strain inducing small fonts and under-designed UI (the settings layout is a masterclass in how not to design a UI), I'm afraid to say the choice to move to Roon is easy. I also experienced numerous error messages within the Audirvana Studio app, broken website links during the download, etc. so I'm thankful they offered a trial for 3.5 users because I would have been disappointed to pay for this day. In time I hope their team will use the efficiencies created by the new pricing model to steadily improve the solution. asiufy and lucretius 2 Link to comment
idesign Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 31 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: I get here, and the log in button does nothing. I tried signing in elsewhere and there it told me I don't have an account... This is one of the many broken website links that I referred to in my previous post. I found a workaround, click this link: https://audirvana.com/download/ Link to comment
idesign Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 I also found a bug with SysOptimizer in Audirvana Studio and it cannot be installed. It installs without issue in version 3.5. Audirvana Studio more aptly should be referred to as a beta and not the premiere. Link to comment
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