Audirvana
The ultimate digital audio playback. Enjoy an uncompromised audio playback and make the most of your sound system with advanced options and settings.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
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Audirvana brings your Mac and PC to the ultimate level in Sound Quality, making it your Best Transport.
No equalizer, no trendy special effects, just the best sounding music
•Native playing of FLAC, libSndFile (WAV, AIFF, ...), ALAC and other quicktime formats (AAC, MP3, ...)
•Direct sound path, directly to the !CoreAudio HAL for pure bit perfect sound
•Audio Device exclusive access mode
•HAL I/O using DAC native physical formats "Integer Mode" (instead of CoreAudio 32bit float)
•Automatic sample rate switching
•Up/Oversampling capability
•Plays completely from memory
•Tracks are loaded, decoded and sample rate converted in a memory buffer before being played
•Minimizing CPU and hard drive activity to lessen sources of interference
•Gapless playback by using a double buffering mechanism (playing track and next track)
•Transparent split load for loading tracks of any size
•Background tracks loading/decoding (including sample rate conversion)
•Playlist (m3u & m3u8 formats) load/save
•Handles Apple IR Remote
•Automated updates downloading (using Sparkle)
No equalizer, no trendy special effects, just the best sounding music
•Native playing of FLAC, libSndFile (WAV, AIFF, ...), ALAC and other quicktime formats (AAC, MP3, ...)
•Direct sound path, directly to the !CoreAudio HAL for pure bit perfect sound
•Audio Device exclusive access mode
•HAL I/O using DAC native physical formats "Integer Mode" (instead of CoreAudio 32bit float)
•Automatic sample rate switching
•Up/Oversampling capability
•Plays completely from memory
•Tracks are loaded, decoded and sample rate converted in a memory buffer before being played
•Minimizing CPU and hard drive activity to lessen sources of interference
•Gapless playback by using a double buffering mechanism (playing track and next track)
•Transparent split load for loading tracks of any size
•Background tracks loading/decoding (including sample rate conversion)
•Playlist (m3u & m3u8 formats) load/save
•Handles Apple IR Remote
•Automated updates downloading (using Sparkle)
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- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license) that cost about $96.
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The sound, only the sound
Audivarna + is now compatible Windows 10 (since june 2018) and it’s my new favorite music player.
The +:
The -:
I cannot review the network feature but I saw my Internet/Wifi radio was recognized without any problem. Audivarna + manages Qobuz, Tidal and VirtualVault.
It’s the best player for Windows in my opinion relative to sound. But don’t expect to manage easily a music library with it. So one star cut.