#Pure music vs audirvana plus pro
#Pure music vs audirvana plus Pc
#Pure music vs audirvana plus mac

But, that may because I trialed a MC version later than the one reviewed. Unlike the reviewer that I quoted, I found MC's detail retrieval to be essentially on par with Pure Music. On the other hand, my 2-channel audio room with a Wavelength DAC, CAT amps, and Soundlab speakers is the area I want MC to equal or exceed the above mentioned OS based players.

#Pure music vs audirvana plus mac

However, in my HT room, I probably couldn't tell the difference between Pure Music and Mac MC, nor (more importantly) would I care. My home theater room has good sound - new Marantz pre-pro, 7 Energy loudspeakers, Aragon amp, Paradigm subs etc. And one needs the equipment and acousticly enhanced space to accurately portray these attributes. We do spend significant sums on equipment to reproduce such attributes as soundstage, transparency, imaging etc. It must be said that we audiophiles are a finicky bunch when it comes to sound reproduction. But I do want Mac MC to provide a soundstage and dynamics that are similar to what I'm experiencing with other players. I haven't the technical expertise to discuss, or make conclusions one way or the other.

#Pure music vs audirvana plus pro

I have read various conclusions - both pro and con - to that discussion and don't believe that the signal is being altered by players such as Pure Music and Audirvana, but the key words in this sentence are 'don't believe'. That is, if the output is bit perfect, and one player sounds different than another, then the signal is being altered.

#Pure music vs audirvana plus Pc

Is one that is discussed on the PC audio forums that I frequent about the aforementioned players. If I knew that to be the fact, I wouldn’t hesitate to become an early adopter of Mac JRiver. Hopefully, the sonic bogie is also the top priority of the JRiver Team and that they then plan to (and Apple doesn’t prevent them) from keeping up with future OS upgrades. I dislike Apple products because they “just work” but try to protect me from myself and try to control and constrain what I do with their hardware and software.Īttempting to develop a player that is competitive to iTunes (which doesn’t direct one to the iTunes store) and then meets or exceeds add-on players like Pure Music, would seem to represent a tough task in Apple’s controlled - we don’t like competition - environment.Īlthough a good deal at its 'alpha price', I'm hesitant to purchase until I'm certain that the JRiver Media Center Team has the ability and tenacity to program a stand-alone Apple OS based program that will equal or exceed the sonics of present iTunes based audiophile players. I use Apple products because they “just work”. If the sonics aren't the best, all other options, the user interface etc., are unimportant! Sonic quality is my first and foremost requirement in a music player. So, because I prefer the JRiver interface to iTunes related ones, I would love to see Mac JRiver equal or exceed the sonics of the Mac based iTunes players like Pure Music.

In my audio room, I was quite happy with the latter, but not so much with the former. JRiver works, but isn’t sonically comparable yet.Īlthough I own a MacBook, a Mac Mini (strictly for my audio room), and an Apple TV, I'm more knowledgeable of the Windows' OS than Apple's and before converting to the Mac Mini for audio, I used a Windows PC and JRiver. Quote Your sonic comparison between Pure Music and JRiver parallel my experiences yesterday.