Bottom line: Deep Thought isn’t required.Īudirvana+ is $99 including 20% UK tax and $10 for the iOS remote. I ran with 4Gb memory – scanning 3,500 NAS-based albums took a while – but once it’s done, it’s done. A powerful CPU is only needed for upsampling PCM to DSD. Plisson recommends 64-bit Windows 10 (April 17 update onwards) with 8Gb memory.

My ageing i5 Asus laptop coped okay with the Windows take on Audirvana+. (‘Bits are bits’ believers are invited to alight here and are advised to stick with the inferior sounding iTunes or Foobar – Ed) Electrical noise can travel down USB cabling to disturb the downstream DAC. Software apps sound different because they each have their own processor, RAM read/write and hard-drive read requirements and therefore deliver different electrical noise. This one’s for Windows users and is the first outing of Audirvana+’s improved user interface.Ī viable alternative to Roon – or still a lagger? And which sounds better? Game on. Time to revisit an alternative: the new version of Audirvana+. It does cost a fair wedge and Roon’s in-house coded RAAT protocol is theirs and theirs only. I’m two years in and things move on both inside Roon (via a wealth of updates) but also elsewhere. Or rent it, like your music.”…say some. It’s not the only party in town though. All for the price of a good interconnect. Great functionality, metadata2die4, a user interface that trounces others Hulk-style.

Audirvana plus single song