![]() By the way this month (December 2011) TAS started a four part on computer audio, which based on the first part, will go a long way towards cementing, rather than dispelling, all the those crazy myths believed by by audiophiles regarding computer based digital audio. If it weren't for the low subscription price and the guaranteed laughs I get every month I wouldn't even bother to read either Stereophile or The Absolute Sound. Atkinson gets all bent out of shape when I point this out and threatens to have me banned for their forum. As you must know by now I continually write posts on the Stereophile stating that Stereophile clearly does not serve the interests of the readers but rather only serves the interests of their advertisers. Oh yea, what about that $700.00 to $3,000.00 USB to SPDIF converter they just tested? If you had to use that gosh awful POS iTunes you might have a different take on things! :-)Īnyway, I’m more inclined to agree with Klauss, go after the DAC manufacturers who claim their kilobuck model corrects for anything and everything, yet we continue to see transport changes affect the sound. Last year it was Channel D’s Pure Music software $129.00. And of-course audiophiles prize it virtues and it is widely used on hifi shows, a clear warning sign to me. They probably do the same thing as asio and wasapi and kernel streaming did/does ? for windows which is good and actually completely sound taking any OS re-sampling and mixing out of the loop this as it should be.īut then they seems to have gone off on a tangent far beyond anything reasonable and credible. Heck one could leave out the computer all together and just use a USB hard drive or flash drive connected to the Touch.The usual reasons ,their manual claims that receiving email on the same computer that is playing music id "bad" go figure. After all for $700 one can a buy Squeezebox Touch ($250) and a cheap desktop or laptop computer and have a system to play digital audio files with varying sample rates. Heck one could leave out the computer all together and just use a USB hard drive or flash drive connected to the Touch.įull disclosure: depending on the answers I receive to the above questions I am planning on posting a thread the Stereophile forum about Amarra since this piece of software was selected as the "Computer Audio Component of the Year" in the December 2011 issue of Stereophile. Thanks!įull disclosure: depending on the answers I receive to the above questions I am planning on posting a thread the Stereophile forum about Amarra since this piece of software was selected as the "Computer Audio Component of the Year" in the December 2011 issue of Stereophile. ![]() ![]() So could someone with more technical knowledge than me please explain 1) is it possible for this software to improve the sound of a digital file, 2) why this software costs so much and 3) why the high end audio press is all a gaga over it. From what I understand this Mac/Apple only software does two things:ġ) it allows Apple computers to play flac filesĢ) it allows one to listen to files with different sample rates without having to exit and relaunch iTunes each time the sample rate changes. I'm a bit confused or should I say extremely puzzled regarding the $700 Amarra music playback software.
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