Audirvana Studio

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

 

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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/ 

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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.