Plāys With Audirvāna
Quote from Pedja on 24 June 2024, 7:26 PMSo, we did it.
You will find more formal information soon, but for now you can see this within the Audirvana window or Remote app (Windows will show it with WASAPI and kernel output, ASIO has a different routing).
And, I personally also like very much how Audirvana sounds. As soon as I installed it to my NUC / Windows, it sounded very nice, very smooth, maybe even a bit soft, but everything got even better when I installed it to my Synology NAS and routed it to Raspberry Pi5 / DietPi as an endpoint to connect it to S5 and S5b USB input (unfortunately Synology abandoned audio support for USB devices, so now a direct connection is not possible anyway).
A very nice-sounding software, and currently I use it as my main source.
Thanks for recommending it.
Hi Pedja,
Trying Audirvana and I can’t see the drop down to let it know I have the S5b. It has found my ASIO driver.
Hello Peter,
A drop-down list, now with pictures, should appear if you choose WASAPI or kernel output, and then "Audial USB Audio Device". Normally, WASAPI is preferred to the kernel because it is a more direct path.
ASIO is similar to WSAPI in that it is a direct output to the device. If you use ASIO, and then select Audial ASIO, it will do the rest. In this case, however, Audirvana does not bring the drop-down list with S5b, S5, and AYA 5. I would have to check with Antonie if this can also be done.
If that matters, the benefit of ASIO output is the ability to play up to 384 kHz, and multichannel. WASAPI and kernel, as Windows "embedded" outputs, are limited to 192 kHz.
HTH.
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A few years ago i tried nearly every music player that worked on a Mac, Amarra and Audirvana sounded the best with Roon in third place, but no program could touch Roon in what it is, a fantastic design with unbelievable great way of finding new music, I was lucky to be able to buy a lifetime subscription for a fraction of what it costs now, the sound has gotten better lately I think too.
I would not mind trying Audirvana again as I understand that they have made a much nicer player software vise lately.
I just don’t like the subscription way of going, it’s a bit like Adobe!
Would be nice if Roon would accept audio engines from Amarra or Audirvana, then I would have the best of both worlds.