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Expensive 2. Not even a proper player because it lacks UI. In time I stopped looking for alternatives because I even got used to it’s old-school design and listening music by albums. I can recommend everyone to try it out. It is rough around the edges but it’s completely free and it sounds superb in my experience. Aiibo , Sep 17, I have an Apple Mac Mini. I am using Audirvana Plus.

It sounds nice, but it has a problem. Some of my downloaded albums have two copies of each song instead of one. If I try to delete just one song of the doubles, the whole album is erased from the program. I am not so computer savvy. Is there a better player program I could be using?

How do I clear out the extra song copies? Claud , Sep 17, Anyone know of a player for Windows that works with pCloud as the back end? I prefer listening to Fidelia on Mac, beats Audirvana pure sound wise. Too bad Fidelia hasn’t been updated for years and is not very stable and very buggy. I have had the chance to use these players with some very high end equipment and indeed the improvements I get from these players are good enough to warrant the purchase.

This is why the pricing of the players is going to be a big part of the decision. Another aspect that you need to realize is that the quality of the recording is always the most important aspect of any Hi-Fi system. Please also note that the same function may be worded differently on different players, but in essence they do the same thing i. For instance, if money were no object, I would get Fidelia with the FHX add-on just so I can have its crossfeed controls, or the Amarra player just for the brilliantly executed EQ controls.

While most of the players can work either as a stand-alone or paired with Itunes, the way the interface is designed makes some players more naturally inclined to be used with Itunes, or vica versa.

Of course even the basic player like Audirvana Free will give you a better separation than iTunes. There are so many wrong things about this. I just occasionally use Vox not on the list. Complaining about it is like complaining about a lack of Yankees focused articles in a Redsox blog.

Then this review is not for you, but for the rest of us, it provides some interesting new info to digest. Because you only use one player you get the illusion that Foobar is totally colorless. Once you start using different players imagine nine different players , you think they will all sound exactly the same?

I agree. I hear differences all the time between Foobar, iTunes, JRiver, etc. Each sounds different. Thanks for the efforts. I have been waiting for a proper comparison of these software players and I think you have nailed it. Amarra is still the best with these ears too. It would also be great to see a show down of the various iOS players; sonicmaxpro BBE , EQu, equalizer, flacplayer, stereophonic and more.

Do we have any suggestions as to the mechanism whereby these players sound different? The reason I ask is that compared to running Foobar these players look pretty terrible functionality-wise half of them are just itunes plugins!

Take a guess? Take 6 guys and ask them to draw a simple mountain. But clearly they all wrote their own line of software, and the different approaches would be one possible explanation for the different sound. Again, I never thought that an audio player could have a sound signature. Until I start comparing these different players. Again, take 9 different players.

Listen to them. They all sound different. Who gets to claim that theirs is the most neutral? How do you define neutrality? The differences here are on sound characters and they way they present things like soundstage. If 2 diferent players produce a diferent sound then a least one of them is not neutral.

Do you think that no player is neutral? Yes but how do you know how far that player have deviated from the original recording? Go to the recording studio and plug in your headphone there? They tweak things to make the recording sound more exciting.

Surely when the mechanisms involved are so exotic some of the companies making large sums out of this look at the price of Amarra! Suggested mechanism of audibility: Direct effect of software on jitter ie, not the power supply. In this buffer, you will find, in some form or another, the audio samples. The audio interface or USB interface sees exactly the same data, assuming a bit-perfect player: a direct effect upon jitter via this mechanism is not merely unlikely, but completely impossible.

The problem I have with it is one of plausibility. If this was the case, it would be relatively easy to measure ripple and the like on the power supply rails for some of the companies selling these. Even if there is an effect on the power supply rails, this completely ignores the local regulators employed on the interfaces themselves. It would surely be the intrinsic noise and ripple of those regulators that would dominate any measurements of the power reaching the more critical components?

In the past, there have been plenty of things that had noticeable effects, but the reason was not yet known. BTW, your jitter discussion avoids the inconvenient fact that those buffers get full. This leaves the only mechanism whereby differences can be caused as one of the power supply, which seems very unlikely. I think it is reasonable that companies selling things utilising unlikely mechanisms provide some modicum of proof that their stuff actually does what it says on the tin.

I also take issue with the idea that audiophiles heard issues in the past before science caught up. I tried the demo of Amarra 2. The sound of Audirvana is different, more aerial and still a bit more crisp, but a little less detailed. Yet the program works like a charm. Well still looking for one with playlist management and I would be in paradise. I also found Amarra 2. The earlier Amarra version was similar in that regard, but the last version I used for the review 2.

Take a look at the Superlux HD Thank you for the tip! Now just being a curious soul, I do wonder how audio players can possibly have different sound sigs. But does having different sigs imply that they all essentially apply different EQs to the music? If one player is grainy and the other is smooth, that is not part of an EQ since an EQ alters the frequency response and grain is not part of a frequency response.

Or if one player has a deeper soundstage, or a blacker background, that is also not a part of an EQ process. I have posted an update on page 10 of the article in an attempt to clarify the confusion about the different players being colored, applying EQs and such. It has thousands of radios.

It plays even exotic formats that no player wants to read. And many other features…. The Application exists for Windows, iPhone and Android. It can be used with a DAC and with a network solution. The player is called Neutron Music Player. It has a Russian UI, made in an atomic bunker, but its sound is like the voice of God.

Its library management is also good, once you are used to it. It is a Japanese audiophile player, called TuneBrowser. It does not support streaming and is only for local playback. It sounds good, and offers UI and UE of exceptional quality.

The display offers a highly custumable interface. Really remarkable. You can get a free fully-featured version of this player from the Microsoft Store that you can keep forever.

Its only restriction is that the library cannot exceed tracks. This audiophile player was supported by Neil Young. The player sounds good, but plays PCM tracks that are up to There are no limitations for DSD. Accounting Services. Hysolid If you have your computer connected to a quality Hi-Fi system, Hysolid may be exactly what you are looking for.

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It plays always the songs from the top of the queue and then removes it from there. I prefer listening to Fidelia on Mac, beats Audirvana pure sound wise. So much Details! Also with very hot jplay vs audirvana plus free download, the new version seems to feel a little more distorted as по этой ссылке its output goes louder than 0db. I am not going to test relentlessly or agonize over the level of improvement. Albums are selected from within the program by right clicking on the drop down bar to set a target folder.