supernaut76

Audirvana seems to work fine via airport express piping into the dac or my system through toslink with or without iTunes. However when I plug the usb into the computer it seems the only way I can get the sound out is to disable Audirvana. I've tried alt-clicking on the sound menu on top and changing to 'cambridge dac magic usb 2.0', rebooting, trying to use Audirvana in standalone mode as a player, checked audio-midi setup to see if anything was muted but nothing seems to work. I've contacted support but they have yet to get in touch. Just checking to see if anyone else had encountered this problem.

Thanks Eloise. Bitperfect fixed it. I'm definitely keeping my eyes open to see what I can pick up second hand.

Well I did a bit of impulse buying and got the Dacmagic 100. Even with my so-so years and budget micro, I can tell that its gives a lot of tracks a lovely finish ( although I think occassionally it misses ) Thankfully I'm very happy. I'm going to do a bit of research over the next year and probably sell the M39 and use the money to fund a good amp. Probably a NAD or a Marantz like you mentioned musicophile. I'll be looking for bargains on ebay too! This may be a question for another thread but I've noticed that when I plug USB in the incoming sample rate always shows 192. This seems to stay even when I play tracks that are 44.1, 16.0, 32.0 or whatever. Similarly when I switch to toslink mode it always reads 44.1 as the incoming sample rate ( it is receiving an input from airport express) Can anyone explain why this is?

Wow thanks! This is just incredible information. I'm being edjikated yo! Eloise I have not tried plugging in the computer directly due to a lack of the USB/Toslink connect. I have plugged in my iPod directly to the USB though and the difference is not audible (with files I was using i.e: alac and mp3) I will definitely get it as it is cheap enough and worth trialling. Having done a fair bit of browsing on various forums, I've hear that spending more/all on a good amp vs. a DAC was the way to go but your post seems to indicate otherwise? Having said that I suspect that there a fair bit of olde world bias out there. I got your points on the FLAC recognition and importance of good USB connect. The Teac AH01 sounds great! The Denon is good but I suspect not the greatest way to drive those speakers. Musicophiile - I get your point regarding the maturing of amp technology vs. DAC. That's something I'm hearing consistently all around. Those 2 amps you mentioned though are out of my price range. Esp. seeing that I'd have to buy an additional DAC as well. OK I'm not absolutely wedded to buying an all in one amp and int. dac if that limits my options. Can you guys recommend any separate good amplifier and DAC combinations for a price of about £400 ( USD 650 ). Eloise I live in Australia but it seems I get get most things shipped here from the States or UK/Europe for a very competitive price vs. buying it here.

I had my first foray into hi-fi territory when I recently bought a Denon M39 with Dali Zensor 1 speakers. It sounds great - relative to what I was used to. But I know that before too long I'm going to outgrow it (its happening already …. ) and I'll want to swap the micro-system for some separates. Now I mostly play music out of my laptop. This is being piped via an airport express into the Denon with iTunes/Audirvana being the player and using mostly ALAC, FLAC, MP3 and AAC files. I don't really need a CD player and I can't see myself really wanting to use that format again on a regular basis. I'm looking to swap my Micro for a good integrated amplifier - either with an inbuilt DAC or a separate amplifier and DAC. 1)The amp should be integrated and should be decent enough that I don't feel like an upgrade for a few years. 2) Its should pair well with the speakers. 3) Also since the primary source is computer audio, I think the DAC is important. The idea of an internal DAC appeals to me, but I'll be happy to sacrifice it if I can get a decent DAC with amp with same or better value and options as I can see a completely integrated package reduces my options. Second hand is fine. 4) I'm looking at a budget of £400 - 500 max 5) Must accept ALAC and FLAC source I was looking at the …. Cambridge Audio 651A - apparently has a decent onboard DAC but some bad reviews ?? Rega Brio - R - Great Reviews on What Hifi but worried about cruddy cosmetics ( although chrome finish looks quite decent) and lack on inputs esp. optical in NAD 356BEE - but I guess optional dac would push the price up a bit? Rotel RA11 - sounds great! but specifications don't mention support for FLAC or ALAC?? I'm also open to separate DAC and amp solutions as I understand that approach has its advantages

Huh? Question in the title and in the text. I only ever play CD rips so whether or not there is a ceiling at 16/44.1 is academic to me. Nope I haven't tried to gauge the difference between integer mode and non-integer. I suspect that neither my ears or my current set-up would allow me to tell the difference if any, so I'll just stick it on integer mode for good measure.

OK I've just installed Mountain Lion and Airplay works fine with my really old airport express 802.11g. Streaming using integer mode on Audirvana integrated with iTunes. Just need to set up Airplay as preferred device as Airplay under 802.11g. Also your Mac needs to be Core-i processor built after say mid 2012. Sounds heavenly! Thanks for all the amazing help I've had here so far. Not!

Oh and I'm using a OSX on a Powerbook core-i5. Airport is a 802.11g.

Of course I could use Airfoil, but I really dislike the audio quality from it and would much rather just use iTunes if that's the case.

On Lion currently. I'm downloading Mountain Lion for OSX hoping Audionirvana will be able to talk to the AE then. Will this work, or do I need Apple TV?

Bumping this up. Anyone?

Also can I get 16 bit /44.1 transmitting from Mac to airport express? I don't use high res 24 bit so that's not an issue.

[TABLE=class: tborder postbit, width: 100%, align: center] [TR] [TD=class: alt1 postMessageArea, bgcolor: #FBFBFF]Apologise is this has already been addressed, I did see a post on here regarding this a while back but can't seem to find it anymore. I'm streaming from music from Spotify and iTunes to my Denon M39 using Airport Express. I stream from my iPad as well as my Mac Powerbook. Optical in. Seems that the sound quality using Airport Express is better than Air Foil. Also when I connect Airfoil to stream directly from System Audio - the sound seems to deteriorate massively! Can anyone confirm this and also any guesses why this may be? At the moment it seems to be better to stream Spotify from my iPad using the extreme 320 kbps Ogg Vorbis format > that way I can bypass the mildly cruddy Airfoil sound. I've heard iOS iPad streams to Airport at a lower bit-rate than OS X Mac. From what I can hear though despite this the iPad still sounds mildly cleaner minus the Air Foil. Am I just imagining this? I'll continue using iTunes directly with Airplay to play my MP3's and ALAC's [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]