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  1. +1 to that! A big thank you to team Dirac and especially to Flavio. My Dirac plug in and Audirvana are happily singing together. Still learning the ropes of filter design and room measurements so that part may not be at the most optimum yet.
  2. Many thanks Flavio. I've gone ahead and purchased the Dirac Live stereo license. If there is a possibility for me to 'beta test' the AU plugin, please do let me know how to go about doing it.
  3. I have been a Pure Music customer for many years despite it's sloppy / choppy performance with my HR FLAC collection. I have to migrate my music player to a 2015 Mac Mini but it seems Pure Music 2.0 won't work unless it is fed minimum 8GB RAM. We can't upgrade RAMs on Mac Mini's anymore so that option is out of the window for me. Although the older version of PM works mostly fine on my older Mac with just 4GB I'm getting tired of those occasion clicks & thuds and quirky playback behaviour of PM. Besides, I don't buy Channel D's reasoning of needing more RAM on newer OSX versions. Have downloaded trial of Audirvana today and am very happy with not just the playback quality but also the ease & speed of updating my expansive FLAC collection. Dirac's DAP appears to be working fine as of now. My question is to anyone who has used the Dirac AU plugin - is the sound quality better by enabling integer mode plus the beta AU or the disabled integer mode plus DAP of Dirac is good enough? Second question is to Flak: Is the release date of the AU plugin anywhere in sight or should I just go ahead with purchasing Dirac live for my A+ based stereo rig? Many thanks for your help!
  4. esldude has pretty much nailed it. the two main differences are better signal to noise ratio and a better dynamic range. this wikipedia page on audio bit depth explains these two differences between 16 and 24 bit audio very well.
  5. i find this to be a very useful product for desktop mounted bookshelf speakers: Auralex MoPADS two or three of these on the portion just behind the speakers on the drywall will help 'tame' the near-field listening experience: Ecophon Master A Series finally, for your electronics you can try these or similar: Vibrapod - Isolator Isolation Feet - Model 3
  6. very nice post and a thought provoking blog post. thank you for sharing. the article touches on some aspects of Buddhism and the principles of Zen. pursuing any hobby brings an immense deal of satisfaction and can even be compared to a form of meditation. however, fuelled by the wealth of knowledge & opinions on Internet forums, websites, trade shows & print media etc, combined with the subjective nature of some aspects of ‘audiophilia’, the same ritual can sometimes lead to a sense of dissatisfaction leading to the all too familiar disease - ‘upgraditis’. it is between these two extremes that we need to practise the balancing act, which eventually becomes the key to reduced stress levels and the overall feelings of happiness. the blog post also reminded me of an excellent article written by Srajan Ebaen of 6Moons fame for Soundstage a while back. sharing it for everyone’s reading pleasure and further comments. Audiophilism: Why Some of it Smacks of Religion
  7. cool test. thanks for sharing. bookmarked!
  8. yes i think that's pretty much it. you've nailed Dirac's pricing logic here. it's a bit of a niche product as of now. in the hardware boxes world, the closest example would be the logic of spending about $2 to 3k each in the digital and D/A source chain - on a transport, DAC, a DEQX, by that logic it's definitely cheaper.
  9. @ windianrecords: thanks a lot for the offer. the details of the Marantz test can be found here at the bottom of this page - Anthem Room Correction (ARC) System - Part 1 - Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity @ scintilla: within the context of this thread, LMS is surely a dead-end, if not elsewhere. FWIW, I was an early adopter of LMS (known as Slimserver those days) and have owned every possible piece of SB hardware - SB2, SB3, Duet, Touch, Transporter over the years. it was a great idea in its time when there was no other reasonable way of getting bit perfect digital audio out of a PC/Mac. the introduction of high performance, low cost USB DACs changed all that irreversibly, there is no going back now. i switched from LMS /Transporter the day Benchmark USB DAC1 was unleashed on to the scene. as for free community supported projects on OS X platform, i have yet to see anything really meaningful emerge from such efforts in the audio domain. in fact the very reason paid softwares like Pure Music, Ammara etc exist in OS X universe is because there never has been anything even close to the Foobar ecosystem. (or EAC, or winamp, or dbPoweramp for that matter) and yes, there is no shame in admitting that typical Mac users, including me, do prefer a designed-for-Mac, ‘easy system to set up and use’, without having to break a lot of code under the hood, or go cross-platform just to perform one task.
  10. hello everyone! my first post on CA. i’m in the same boat as wgscott and a Pure Music user (Redbook and Hi-Res PCM FLAC). i need to ‘bite the bullet’ later this quarter. i will be following this thread with keen interest. here’s my take on the advantages and disadvantages: the top 2 contenders seem to be Dirac Live and ARC plug-in as of now. Acourate and Audiolense are targeted exclusively at PC users, i see no point in putting my money down on officially unsupported products. have used REW before in conjunction with miniDSP for sub woofer setups. as noted by others, i too believe that any full range, Hi-Res solution based on measurements generated by REW will not be as simple or easy to implement as Dirac Live or ARC plug-in. in any case, i can’t seem to find any convincing examples of such an implementation by regular end-users in a Hi-res rig. any solution using LMS is a dead-end since Logitech has officially discontinued the Squeezebox ecosystem. as noted by wgscott, Audyssey Multi EQ XT32 has a 48Khz limitation (in its Marantz 8801 implementation). I can’t find any information yet that the ARC plug-in for Mac/PC doesn’t have this issue/feature. that brings us to Dirac Live. the Dirac iOS app delivers some stunning results with my Yuin PK3 earbuds on 16/44.1 and 24/48 ALAC files. way better than what it does with Apple earbuds. haven’t tried Dirac Live for OS X yet but was following the detailed comparison thread between Datatsat RS20i and Trinnov last year. i think that Dirac can ‘deliver the goods’ in my OS X based system too. will download the trial and try it out soon to confirm it. the only show stopper as of now is the steep pricing of Dirac Live. i can’t see the logic in paying several times over the cost of a very competent digital transport (Pure Music in my case) just for the room correction layer.
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