I use a Chord Dave DAC, which has been engineered to be as immune as possible to RF, so no problem.
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However, if I wanted to I could stream Tidal Qobuz or HiRes Audio and output them via A+ to my DAC, and that could even include MQA first unfold.Ī word of caution here: frrding the USB direct to a DAC does require the DAC to be immune to RF in the signal: even using fancy power supplies on the Mac does not prevent RF, and in some DACs RF can modulate the audio, reducing sound quality (although, apparently, some people like the effect!). In fact as my music store is in the Mac Mini, my music does not travel across a network at all while playing, so I have no need to be concerned with effect of ethernet cables, swictes or their power supplies, etc. As optimised this is a dedicated USB bus, and bypasses all of Apple’s sound drivers, to maximise sound quality. flac files into a digital music stream that feeds the DAC direct, not output to a streamer via UPnP: My output is via a USB port on the Mac Mini. Maybe I’m missing the metadata gene but I can cope.īy using Audirvana as a renderer I mean it converts my. Drag and drop the download/rip to the folder, open folder, play. This ease of use is absolutely necessary with something like a collection of the musical career of Bob Dylan a folder for each decade since 1960, and within each decade folder, further folders for each year of the decade with folders of files for each music event of the year. I know where everything is, I can stack folders and files endlessly, select, play. Mainly, though, for streaming, I use the Bryston MPD on the BDP-3 in default mode, folders and files all the way. On the other hand the My Music section in HRA Streaming within Audirvana is a joy and is easier to use and is more responsive than it is with the HRA Streaming app itself. I’m probably one of the most metadatea-phobic streamers you could find and I manage to navigate my way round Audirvana with no problem even in the metadata mass that is my local library. I’m sorry I posted this on Audirvana now, it has turned into an Audirvana bash and I only meant to do it some good.
Sadly this is one area where Audirvana falls down, being very fussy about its metadata. When I had an ND5XS, fed by at first Logitech Media Server on a cheap NAS, and later Serviio on Mac Mini, it worked perfectly Regardless of how good the metadata - even albums having no metadata. And all these things happen without necessarily easily identifiable errors in the metadata - but not a problem at all with simple file structure storage and browsing. Or sometimes albums being somehow split and appearing as two part-albums. And other people have reported difficulty properly resolving double albums, or samplers. There is a current thread on this forum where someone has had trouble with albums showing as two copies. It is wholly unnecessary where you have a localised store managed by the user, as with a music collection. Metadata searching comes into its own when searching large datasets spread across multiple, even random, locations )as long as everything has necessary metadata). And for anyone already having a collection that either has no metadata, incomplete metadata, or incorrect metadata, it is a major and very time-consuming exercise to fix it - some people may have limitless time, or even enjoy doing that, but not everyone. Classical music seems particularly problematic. Even when downloading music, metadata is not always complete or correct, requiring time to check and if necessary correct, for every file downloaded. The issue with metadata is getting it complete and correct. Whilst metadata based searching or browsing can be equally effective, it fundamentally depends on good and consistent metadata - and tgat is where the problem lies. Saving music takes seconds, with almost no thought, whether a downloaded file, a CD rip or an LP rip.
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Why ever would software not allow simple searching or browsing by file structure?įiling music in simple folder structure is easy and intuitive, and searching or browsing is just like in a library.
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