![]() There exists inherent and imbued biases in one’s construct of “objectivity” and the application of objectivity in the process of system design and analysis… Ultimately, all interpretations regarding quality-of-sound, are a product of one’s selective biases and are subjective in nature. Ignore the naysayers.These subjective observations have some value, however there exist many variables that feed into these perceptions regarding harmonic, dynamic and spatial interpretation… Primarily, these interpretations will always be rationalized by one’s imbued biases… Simple changes to the harmonic and dynamic energy distribution, and flow of the signal in one’s playback system will affect these elements of perception… like having codified a preferred sound-quality, by nature of the specific amalgamation of components one’s system is composed-of, in order to reach that preferred state of sound-quality… In other words, generally, one’s amalgamation of system components is the result of a process that produces the preferred quality of sound, and disturbing that satisfying balance by changing players, more-likely-than-not will be perceived subjectively different, and again, left to one’s inherent biases, which are intrinsically tied to the system design preferences… In the case of the latest macOS 12.0.1 “Monterey”, the symbiosis of Audirvana Studio 1.7.2 and the Apple Core Audio system, to my ears, is producing an extremely satisfying listening experience, albeit, this is my own subjectively biased interpretation based on my playback system configuration and how I have Audirvana Studio configured, which includes using an Audio Units plug-in and SoX upsampling to DSD128. ![]() They have an awesome development team, and really care about their product. Some are having glitches but Roon will sort those out quickly. They have just updated Roon to v1.8 and for me it's been flawless since day 1. You can do a 30-day trial, and run the core from a computer on your network to get started, and use the desktop app to control. You can have multiple zones in other rooms and stream to those using your server. Your core holds your ripped music and the Roon Core OS, and that streams to your endpoint/streamer. Wyred4Sound makes a nice one, as does Innuos. ![]() You can run the Roon CORE on a PC/Mac, a Roon Nucleus server, or a 3rd party server-streamer like mine. I use an Amazon Kindle 10" tablet as my "remote". $10 a month for Roon, and it’s indispensable, imo. I just started ripping all my CDs to the server. You can arrange playlists, sort many different ways, and organize your library. Click, click, click and you’ve taken a deep dive into discovering more new music than you imagined possible. Imagine Tidal paired with Wikipedia, where all the artists, albums, tracks, notes, lyrics are hyperlinked and/or displayable. It takes streaming to a level I hadn’t imagined. ) several months ago, and I can’t imagine giving up Roon-ever. ROON! I’ve been streaming Tidal for about a year, and love it.
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