18-Dec-2016, 03:07
I have used Audirvana, iTunes, JRIVER, Pure Music, and Roon.
Some judge a music player solely by music playback quality. Others by feature sets such as up sampling. Still others for music library management capabilities. And/or what hardware is supported for client playback (MacOS, Windows, Linux, IOS, Android, etc...).
I think you will be happy with any of the options you listed above. In my case I have settled on Roon.
As to redbook versus high quality PCM versus DSD, I have found usually the mixing and mastering ( and the music ) are more important in the end than the file format chosen. YMMV.
Some judge a music player solely by music playback quality. Others by feature sets such as up sampling. Still others for music library management capabilities. And/or what hardware is supported for client playback (MacOS, Windows, Linux, IOS, Android, etc...).
I think you will be happy with any of the options you listed above. In my case I have settled on Roon.
As to redbook versus high quality PCM versus DSD, I have found usually the mixing and mastering ( and the music ) are more important in the end than the file format chosen. YMMV.
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