Auralic Aries

[GuillaumeB]

Ok, so I spent some time on this rather miseaprable, wet afternoon persuading Audirvana Plus to work with AIR. My setup is:

iMac, OSX 10.6.8, A+ 1.5.12, AIR 2.1.2

In order to get A+ to work with AIR I had to disable the following preferences in A+
Exclusive Access Mode, Direct Mode and Integer Mode. I selected Use Max I/O buffer size.

Maybe it was just relief after getting the s/w to work but A+ did at first seem a bit brighter and more airy than vanilla iTunes though after listening to a few more tracks I'm not so sure. I have a couple of weeks free trial and plenty of time to compare the two and will report back later.

I still don't understand how A+ could improve on iTunes through AIR particularly as some of the supposed best features of A+ have to be disabled to get it to work???

EDIT: I would add that the output from A+ seems to be a couple of db higher than iTunes which may account for some perceived differences.

Hi Philip,

You have the Naim NDX right? What is this like? How does it compare to AIR?

Guillaume