#AUDIRVANA DSD FILTER SETTING MAC#

Touchscreens require two connections to the host computer: an HDMI cable with video, and a USB cable to carry the movement and click info. To connect it to my MacBook Pro, I picked up an HDMI-to-Lightning adapter ($7).

#AUDIRVANA DSD FILTER SETTING MAC#

I researched new, inexpensive touchscreens until I found, among others, one that would work with my Mac and Windows machines: a 23' Acer T232HL ($300 on Amazon). I was ready to see if Roon could jump to a touchscreen, giving it a more equal footing with the Sooloos: Even though Roon doesn't yet officially support touchscreen hardware, it has been done.Īnd I had to try. If you're already a Tidal fan, I believe you'll find Roon a better way to sort and play tracks. Another bonus: Like Sooloos, Roon makes navigating Tidal far easier than does Tidal's own app. If you mix Tidal's albums with your own, a small Tidal logo appears in the metadata of the former, to indicate which are which. You can then add more Tidal albums over time, or explore new music and build up a great collection (as long as you continue to pay Tidal's monthly fee). When setting up Tidal, you can have the service populate your Roon library with a collection of Essentials: 100≢00 albums for each genre you choose. If you don't already have a large library of music, Tidal can supply you with an instant deep catalog. Integration of Tidal with Roon was fairly seamless, although I encountered some metadata quirks that, presumably, Roon will address in updates. but that's a different review.įor $19.99/month, Tidal provides streaming service at CD resolution of a growing library of songs that, at time of writing, numbered 25 million. That said, changing to a different DAC did change the sounds of both. But in comparisons of PCM files of CD resolution or higher, up to 24-bit/96kHz, and with the Sooloos and Roon systems using the same DAC, nothing stood out. Via S/PDIF, Sooloos doesn't support DSD, so I couldn't use that file format as a basis of comparison. I could hear no differences in sound quality, good, bad, or indeterminate. Nonetheless, I connected my Roon laptop to my main system via USB and, using the same albums as in my Sooloos collection, listened intently. (Audirvana and JRiver partisans: Have at it in the comments section when this review appears on !) Changing a DAC's filter setting has a greater influence on sound. It didn't used to be this way, but it is now: When I've properly set up Amarra, Audirvana, JRiver, Sooloos, VLC, etc., on my Mac and compared them through the same DAC, I've been hard-pressed to hear meaningful differences. These days, I find that most music-playing apps sound so alike, the differences aren't worth sweating. To get started, you simply pick one or more tracks, then press the Radio button: Roon moves you around related music with a curated stream. The Radio feature uses metadata to create, in the words of Roon Labs, a 'personalized station,' in a manner similar to Pandora Radio's automated music-recommendation engine.

And once you start somewhere, Roon can keep the show going until you pull the plug.

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