ralphpnj;670819 Wrote: > I'm a bit confused or should I say extremely puzzled regarding the $700 > Amarra music playback software. From what I understand this Mac/Apple > only software does two things: > > 1) it allows Apple computers to play flac files > > 2) it allows one to listen to files with different sample rates without > having to exit and relaunch iTunes each time the sample rate changes. > > So could someone with more technical knowledge than me please explain > 1) is it possible for this software to improve the sound of a digital > file, 2) why this software costs so much and 3) why the high end audio > press is all a gaga over it. Thanks! > > Full disclosure: depending on the answers I receive to the above > questions I am planning on posting a thread the Stereophile forum about > Amarra since this piece of software was selected as the "Computer Audio > Component of the Year" in the December 2011 issue of Stereophile. After > all for $700 one can a buy Squeezebox Touch ($250) and a cheap desktop > or laptop computer and have a system to play digital audio files with > varying sample rates. Heck one could leave out the computer all > together and just use a USB hard drive or flash drive connected to the > Touch.
The usual reasons ,their manual claims that receiving email on the same computer that is playing music id "bad" ;) go figure . They probably do the same thing as asio and wasapi and kernel streaming did/does ? for windows which is good and actually completely sound taking any OS re-sampling and mixing out of the loop this as it should be. But then they seems to have gone on a tangent far beyond anything reasonable and credible . And of-course audiophiles prize it virtues and it is widely used on hifi shows, a clear warning sign to me. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91692 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
