![]() ![]() They claim to have a secret sauce that upgrades the sound quality of your digital files. I believe I possess a basic understanding of the principles of digital music reproduction, and I will try make this as clear and simple as I can.Īudirvana 3.5 is a desktop computer application for Mac and Windows, whose main functions are to play music files from your computer, and to link with up to three premium streaming services, and act as a substitute for their native apps. This is a topic that you can get really deep into, and when I have attempted it, my head starts to spin. I am simply an enthusiast of digital and analogue music. Let me make this very clear, I am certainly not a digital guru. Not even the links to articles and reviews that Audirvana posted on their own website contain this information. ![]() There were no explanations or descriptions of HOW it actually sounded better. I really couldn’t find one review that directly compared its sound quality to using the Tidal or Qobuz apps. Most of the ones I found focused on the technology and features, said it sounds good and recommend it. Looking for reviews about Audirvana doesn’t help. I want to discuss and review an app that I use called Audirvana. On the other hand, for those who want to turn it up a notch, there are applications on the market that take those services and combine them with your digital music files, and claim to enhance their sound quality as well. They don’t necessarily sound bad, but can be less dynamic and bland in comparison to playing a CD on higher end components.Īudiophiles may choose to subscribe to music services such as Tidal, Qobuz, and Amazon HD that offer premium quality, uncompressed files that stream to your devices for monthly fees of $13 to $20.įor the vast majority of people, using a computer and mobile apps for these services is more than satisfactory. However, when spend some money to get a better music playing system, you may notice the shortcomings of the compressed music streams. On earbuds, Bluetooth headphones and speakers, built-in laptop and phone speakers, and car stereos, they can sound good enough. To most casual listeners, MP3s sound just fine. The MP3 format compresses CD files to one-tenth of their original size by cleverly removing much of the data that the program deems to be inaudible and superfluous. The MP3 format was developed during the period when computing devices had tiny hard drives and home and mobile internet speeds were extremely slow. Obviously this is possible now with the ubiquity of high speed internet access almost everywhere. Instead of streaming lossy and compressed MP3 type files, they are offering digital CD quality and higher resolution streams. I can’t imagine where things could go next.Ī few companies have tried to differentiate themselves from the mainstream services by offering higher quality music streams. In my opinion, we’ve reached the ultimate on-demand solution for music consumption. With the launch of on-demand music streaming services by Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google, and others, the idea of owning physical media is considered completely unnecessary.Ĭustomers can have access to 50 million+ tracks for as little as $10 a month, and family plans are even a better value. Who needs physical media these days? We have streaming services now…The ultimate music listening solution in this on-demand world. Remember Napster and CD burners? All those disks went into the trash years ago. There is just a fraction of what we used to store in there. Who knew?Īnyway, we needed a place to store our CD collection and paid a skilled cabinet maker to build us nice storage drawers inside wooden built-in units. Remember when most people got rid of their vinyl records and started buying CDs. ![]()
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