Audirvana Plus 2.0.1

[AllenB]

Hi hk6230, I have been trying out Audirvana 2 the last couple of weeks. I have found it softens up the music a little too much for my taste. Does some nice things, but changes what I am used to hearing a little too much. Still preferring BitPerfect on my Mac Mini thus far. A Chord Signature TA USB has made a big difference on the stream quality Mac to 200. Might give the Signature mains cable with smaller IEC a go soon as well, currently using Naim Powerline on the 200.

When you said Bitperfect on Mac Mini, do you mean using iTunes with Bitperfect on?

Your Chord Signature TA USB cable is a very expensive cable. What USB cable was you using before this?

I was referring to the BitPerfect app available on the App Store for not very much. It does a very good job of playing music that might be at different sample rates without having to go to the Audio Midi settings in OS X. Audirvana seems somewhat more sophisticated with more depth to the settings you can apply, but essentially they do the same thing.

I only had a stock Belkin cable before, but I decided to get the Signature TA USB cable as an investment, if I eventually go with a Aurender server (which is very interesting) then the cable should hold me in good stead. But even with the Mac Mini, definition and separation of individual voices and instruments has gone up quite a few notches from what I was getting before. These Chord cables take at least 100 hours to run in, but even brand new out of the box, it only took a few minutes to realise the difference.