Audirvana dsd filter setting drivers#
Audirvana dsd filter setting driver#
Audirvana dsd filter setting plus#

Others posted that very same thing on the JRiver forum back then, and it prompted a very nasty response from the JRiver developer along the lines of 'don't you morons know bits are bits and JRiver is bit perfect?'. Although JRiver does sound very good, I did feel at the time I stopped using A+ that it did result in a slight drop in sound quality as compared to A+, which was just a tad more natural, full, and organic sounding. That definitely is in part dependent on the specific version of OSX in use, so maybe Direct Mode is similar, perhaps you are right and El Capitan isn't 100% compatible with Direct Mode.Įither way, enjoy the sound! Some years ago when I switched to JRiver, I did so for features such as DLNA/UPnP, not for sound quality.

Audirvana dsd filter setting driver#

Either that or it still needs something additional, similar to that ASIO driver extension utilized by exaSound which I believe is coupled with Exclusive Mode and Integer Mode.

Audirvana dsd filter setting plus#

DoP sounds fine to me.Īudirvana Plus in Direct Mode probably doesn't fully bypass Core Audio, just most of it. It shouldn't be, though there are additional CPU overhead burdens imposed by DoP, it's never really been proven to sound worse than native DSD, that would likely differ system to system depending on a lot of variables. Didn't think the Pi would be a suitable choice for a bus powered DAC, but there you go. And on the 'net there's video of a fellow using Volumio2 on an RPI3 playing back DSD files. I'm thinking the issue of native DSD playback may be more to do with El Capitan than the DAC. Still need to fiddle a bit, but I'm mostly there. I can't see myself not upsampling with this little DAC. I've just shuttled thru the various filters, and A (5th order) seems to give me the balance of detail and bass that I like. It will now also play the native DSD128 files.Īnd like I've read here at the Haven, the DSD up-sampling is a bit of a game changer. So currently I am up-sampling any of the library files to DSD128. So with the native DSD handling set to DSD over PCM standard 1.1 it shows the DAC is capable of DSD128. Settings changes in Audirvana Plus demonstrated it needs to do DoP in order to get this to work. I also tested with up-sampling PCM to DSD - this too did not work. However, so far I cannot get them to play as DSD - it down samples to PCM 32/352. I had downloaded several DSD files for testing. But that's not really why I brought this in. Playing a redbook file at native sampling rate I was unsure of the audio quality - quite a different presentation than the Bifrost. It played Spotify at 384 khz PCM, which seemed to be controlled from Audio Midi that detected the max setting.

Audirvana dsd filter setting drivers#

It is said to reproduce PCM to 32/384 and up to DSD256, no drivers required for macOS. Plugged it in, and the Mac Mini recognized it right away. It can also serve as a USB/SPDIF converter.

There's not much to it - powered from the USB bus, so no wall wart.

Thought I would give it a try, in my usual budget oriented fashion via the Topping D10. I've been curious for a long time about treading the up-sampling to DSD path.