I am testing Audirvana and Roon. With a DAC plug in the computer's usb port, Audirvana sounds obviously better.
Did anyone test both softwares streaming music from a NAS through a renderer ? Is in that case the sound quality equal ?
I know Audirvana optimizes the computer, so maybe that accounts for the better sound. So maybe streaming from a NAS to a renderer will take out the computer from the equation and cancel the sound quality difference ?
Posted on: 08 January 2019 by Peter Dinh
Streaming from Audirvana sounds much better than Roon.
But be careful with Audirvana, sometimes it goes into a funny state and generates a huge white noise that can potentially damage your speakers!
Posted on: 08 January 2019 by Innocent Bystander
Bluelake posted:
I am testing Audirvana and Roon. With a DAC plug in the computer's usb port, Audirvana sounds obviously better.
I know Audirvana optimizes the computer, so maybe that accounts for the better sound.
Yes, that’s my take on it - really good when fully optimised, with a DAC having good RF rejection, or a good blocker between. Best comparison with Roon might be using something else as renderer, e.g Allo Digione Signature or ultraRendu (though I have no experience of either).
Peter Dinh posted:
Streaming from Audirvana sounds much better than Roon.
But be careful with Audirvana, sometimes it goes into a funny state and generates a huge white noise that can potentially damage your speakers!
I’ve been using A+ for 2½ years and never had that (though I have remained with v2.6)
