Whether the sound quality alone will convince enthusiasts to subscribe to Audirvana Studio is a moot point. Some Audirvana 3.5 users have also complained that the Studio version will feature monthly subscriptions instead of a one-time purchase. The metadata can get mixed up and the catalogue is definitely not as extensive as Spotify.Īlso, the current version is kind of buggy and unstable. It is not user friendly, not intuitive and is inconvenient. I also hear more details and ambience in the songs on Audirvana Studio along with much better separation of instruments and voices.īut…there’s always a but, the User Interface of Audirvana Studio sucks. It does not have the brightness that Roon has and acoustic instruments like guitar and piano sound excellent with Audirvana Studio. Its bass is tighter and deeper, the mid is open and natural and the treble is transparent and extended. In terms of sound quality, Audirvana Studio is the winner. I listened to Leonard Cohen’s Ten New Songs and Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Launch the two, sync with Tidal (since I subscribe to it), select the same albums and listen to them with Roon and Audirvana Studio on a system comprising iFi iSilencer+, Shunyata Sigma USB cable, iFi iPurifier3, iFi ZEN DAC V2 and a pair of Audio Technica ATH M-50x studio monitor headphones. Since I have downloaded Roon and Audirvana Studio in my laptop, it is simple to compare the two apps. The question every music streaming enthusiast is asking is: How does it compare with Roon? It also offers more than 65,000 internet radio stations updated weekly, more than 55,000 podcasts to listen to, on any subjects and from everywhere, a search by country, language, genre, audio stream quality, popularity function and the addition of new radio stations of your choice if they are not listed in the catalogue. While the talk in the music streaming segment is all about Roon these days, Audirvana is trying to grab its share of the pie with its latest iteration,Īudirvana Studio offers integration with Tidal, Qobuz and High Res Audio and “more to come”. Ignore the naysayers.Audirvana has recently launched Audirvana Studio to replace its Version 3.5. They have an awesome development team, and really care about their product. Some are having glitches but Roon will sort those out quickly. They have just updated Roon to v1.8 and for me it's been flawless since day 1. You can do a 30-day trial, and run the core from a computer on your network to get started, and use the desktop app to control. You can have multiple zones in other rooms and stream to those using your server. Your core holds your ripped music and the Roon Core OS, and that streams to your endpoint/streamer. Wyred4Sound makes a nice one, as does Innuos. You can run the Roon CORE on a PC/Mac, a Roon Nucleus server, or a 3rd party server-streamer like mine. I use an Amazon Kindle 10" tablet as my "remote". $10 a month for Roon, and it’s indispensable, imo. I just started ripping all my CDs to the server. You can arrange playlists, sort many different ways, and organize your library. Click, click, click and you’ve taken a deep dive into discovering more new music than you imagined possible. Imagine Tidal paired with Wikipedia, where all the artists, albums, tracks, notes, lyrics are hyperlinked and/or displayable. It takes streaming to a level I hadn’t imagined. ) several months ago, and I can’t imagine giving up Roon-ever. ROON! I’ve been streaming Tidal for about a year, and love it.
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