Better sound, and for those who dislike Tidal’s or Qobuz’s native macOS app, an alternative interface. It can be applied to Tidal, Qobuz or ’s VirtualVault. Folder synchronisation takes place automatically.Ī+’s digital audio sorcery isn’t only for locally stored content. I have A+ pointed at a Downloads folder where it automatically registers incoming music. A+ offers its own clean-looking library management system with full metadata and cover art display. Users aren’t shackled to their iTunes database either that’s optional. Upsampling to DSD is the ultimate one, the DAC then having no upsampling to perform at all.” Plisson again: “Over-sampling uses a much higher quality algorithm than the one that can fit in the small DAC chip, feeding the DAC at its highest rate. I asked Plisson to explain why his software sounds better: “In playing bit perfectly, Audirvana Plus minimizes the electrical noise transmitted to the DAC’s analog stages through the USB wire, the power cables and also any radiating RF noise.”įurthermore, music is pre-loaded into RAM prior to playback and the (optional) SysOptimizer shuts down services not requires by the OS: “SysOptimizer can be configured to stop the OS X background services potentially interfering with sound quality, and give to Audirvana Plus the extreme priority during playback to ensure the maximum signal streaming precision.”Ī+ doesn’t only play hi-res PCM and DSD natively, it will (optionally) upsample audio using iZotope’s 64bit SRC. Of course, to the ‘bits-are-bits’ brigade, A+ presents a bit of a challenge. Find out for yourself via a 15-day trial ( here). A+ isn’t only an abbreviation it’s Audirvana Plus’ audio performance grade: A+ from A+. My experience with Audirvana Plus over the past few years has validated its sizable value for money quotient on occasions too numerous to mention. Developer Damien Plisson claims that it sounds quite a bit better than iTunes and charged accordingly (US$74/€64). Audirvana Plus is a desktop music player/manager for macOS (formerly OS X).
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