It’s not night-and-day, but since it was clear enough for me to hear when I was somewhat biased towards wanting Plex to be better (due to cheaper price and better features), it was a no-brainer for me to go with Audirvana. However, there was a definitive difference in sound quality that favored Audirvana. In fact, from a feature perspective, Plex is a better product. The next closest was Plex, which has some great features. For this type of use case Audirvana worked better than any other solution I tried out. My wife and I use our phones as remotes using the Audirvana app. It is connected directly to a topping D70. I use it for my digital library of flac files exclusively (so far).
#Audirvana windows mac
I have a headless Mac mini (no monitor) that I use it as a media library and player. I haven’t used Roon, but I just paid for Audirvana because it fits my needs very well. Sorry for the very long post, I hope it is useful! I may go back to Roon sometime: probably only when and if I come to have multiple endpoints throughout the house and/or I develop, curate and start using my local library. For its missing feature (mentioned above), I found an alternative - not great, but working. On the other hand, Audirvana made a better job than Roon importing my local library (as it is in wav, Roon did not recognize the albums, and Audirvana did most of them).įinal notes: I am back to Tidal native app and I am happy with it. If I could go back in time, I would have started by trialling Audirvana.įew notes: using Tidal, I did not find a sound quality increase with Audirvana. Interface-wise it is not comparable - and unfit for my use (mentioned above). I started using Audirvana but managed to do it for less than a week. I concluded, I did not.ģ) Audirvana: After the Roon trial, I wanted to try Audirvana.
#Audirvana windows software
In sum, it is a great piece of software and worth every penny, if you use it extensively. For me, this was the feature that made me go back to the Tidal app. I find a shame that the Focus feature does not work generally but only with your own music (local library and Tidal).įinally, I found a pity that although you can find a way of using Roon in multiple cores (i.e work-home, although not at the same time), for me is unjustifiable that you cannot have them in sync (at least, easily). I loved the stats that version 1.8 brought as well. It is great to have your own library integrated with your music from Tidal. Having all the meta and the lyrics is nice as well. Tags for organizing music are great - intuitive and effective. Best interface - including though touch screen.
#Audirvana windows trial
I had the 15-days trial (version 1.7) and paid the subscription for one month (version 1.8). However, I believe Roon is not for everyone. If you approach it as a service, I believe it delivers and its price is justified. Although most negative feedback relates to pricing, I do not agree with this. Simply put it is a great piece of software. For my use, the missing feature is lacking a way of organizing our music (with folders or tags).Ģ) Roon: After using the Tidal native app for a couple of months, I moved to Roon. it is not great for touch-screen.įor me, the major flaw is the recent played that simply is not accurate. I read lots of negative feedback to the software, but I assume it refers to previous versions, as I find it to be suitable to my needs. For Spotify it loses in sound quality and lack of podcasts. More info, namely with credits and info per album.
During this period, the albums I listened the most were Welcome to the Hills (Yussef Dayes Trio), For the first time (Black Country, New Road), Romantic Works (Keaton Henson), Thanks for the dance (Leonard Cohen), What Kind of Music (Tom Misch, Yussef Dayes), Distractions (Tindersticks) and The Koln Concert (Keith Jarrett).ġ) Tidal native app: Having used the Spotify app for years, I enjoyed the first impact with the Tidal app. Music: I listen to different genres, mainly alternative rock, singer songwriters, jazz. I have a local library - small, not well organized and to which I seldom listen (prefer to listen from the CDs directly.
I explore new music by browsing and reading about music (thus, I do not value radio features and the like).
#Audirvana windows pro
Setup: My source was always a Microsoft Surface Pro 7 (running solely Tidal, Roon or Audirvana) → iFi NEO iDSD → Sennheiser HD 650įor user interface, I believe it is also relevant to mention that I used the Surface on portrait, and using it only via touchscreen. This is a summary of my personal experience with Tidal native app, Roon and Audirvana.Ĭontext: I use Tidal since late year, and wanted to check the best software option to use the service - spent the last three months doing that.
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