Audirvana plus 3 review
- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 REVIEW MAC OS#
- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 REVIEW UPDATE#
- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 REVIEW REGISTRATION#
- #AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 REVIEW PRO#
Bringing this fantastic player to Windows is huge enough, but adding a new UI to Mac OS is a daunting challenge. My hat is off to Damien for the hard work he’s put into this. None of this is really unexpected with a completely new UI.
Dates are hard, I get that, but this is another step back in functionality and clarity from the previous version. “Date Added: Before, After, Between” and “Days, Weeks, Months” would have been clearer. “Added Date / Is Later Than or Is : 30 Days Before Today” Is probably not the language I would have used.
The language for the selection criteria in the Smart Playlist editor is a bit … confusing. If you shrink past a certain size, some of the buttons and text can get pushed outside the boundaries, though not always! Biggest omission, in my opinion: No “Heart Button” to fave currently playing track. It doesn’t scale particularly well, unfortunately. Play/Pause, shuffle and skip controls and a small album cover are all you have in this mode and it’s perfect when you’re listening and want to park it in a corner while doing other stuff. Probably my favorite new addition is the inclusion of a mini window. Light Mode is almost pure white and probably not what you want in a dark listening room at night. It’s enough of a color to be discernible against other dark windows on Mac OS. There’s a new Dark Theme which turns the whole thing into a deep royal blue. Thanks for mentioning that in the comments, Ella! It merely builds a database for Audirvana to use. Please note that this is a non destructive process and in no way affects the iTunes library, your song files or their location on disk.
#AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 REVIEW REGISTRATION#
I entered my registration key on the website and was given the new version.
#AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 REVIEW UPDATE#
Installation of the update went smoothly enough. I have two in the house, and Audirvana is a great solution for sending my playlists and library content to them, without having to use the less capable interface Volumio provides. My other major use is streaming to my Hifiberry equipped Raspberry Pis running Volumio. I like my signals unadulterated by my signal path. I don’t use any of the upsampling or signal processing options available – and there are several to choose from. I will say straight away that I don’t think you’ll notice any change in sound quality. Listening through a Topping DX7s DAC/AMP with Adam A7X monitor speakers and Hifiman HE4XX headphones. Audirvana (the “Plus” seems to have been dropped from the moniker) has so much new in it, I’m surprised the author didn’t give it a brand new 4.0 badge.
#AUDIRVANA PLUS 3 REVIEW PRO#
I’ll be testing the MacOS version on my still functioning 2012 Mac Pro running Mac OS version 10.13. With a completely overhauled UI and a new Windows version to go along with it, there’s a lot of new code in here. I’ve been using it exclusively for listening to my local collection of music on my computers for nigh 4 years now and I love it. This weekend I took the plunge and sought out the newest version of Audirvana, my preferred, nay, favorite audio playback software.