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Live stream review – ROON – Audirvana – Foobar – JRiver
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Windows Media Player
- Build: not relevant
- Sound: Harsh, flat, cool
- Imaging: Flat
- Overall: Not very refined. Dull and flat sound
Foobar
- Build: not relevant
- Sound: Fast pace, complete, detailed
- Imaging: Large enough, good focus
- Overall: Much better than WMP!
Audirvana
- Build: not relevant
- Sound: Very fluid and refined. Detailed, yet not analytical.
- Imaging: Very large and airy.
- Overall: Amazing sounding package. Very complete, organic and nice sound
- Price: From 7 euro / month
JRiver
- Build: not relevant
- Sound: Very detailed and airy. 'Hifi' sound.
- Imaging: Large, tight focus
- Overall: Feels very 'hifi'-like
- Price: 80 Euro
Roon
- Build: not relevant
- Sound: Detail rich, mild sound
- Imaging: large, precise, more 'podium feel'.
- Overall: Very nice, bit soft, very user friendly!
- Price: From 10 euro / month
Hi,
nice review/test, thank you!
to see Roon working at its best you could use the ROCK package installed in a dedicated NUC… it seems that WIN10 could not the best friend of good sound when Roon is the player… your collegue/friend Hans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNfUo0Zqz3Q at min 12:51) didin’t find any different at all between Audirvana and Roon… so ok, probably WIN10 is quite good for email and office 😉
anyway, thank you very much… a channel with very interesting content indeed
We tested all packages on the same computer in the same way. We also have ROON bridge installed on a Win10 machine (our own AudioPC) and that sounds very, very good. Roon Rock on a NUC without the dedicated USB-filters, ethernet cards does not work that well, is our opinion. The OS of course has an impact. But you need some specific Linux distribution to make it better than Windows. Ubuntu, for example, doesn’t sound good at all. But some small distri could sound amazing.
Hi Martijn,
Thanks for your reply.
It’s is very sad. I love Audirvāna sound but hate their remote controller.
Cheers.
Hi Luciano. According to their own community forum, they are working on a new version of the Remote App. So, wait and see how that turns out.
Yes Martijn, is very good know this.
Could be a chance of they fix this weak point.
Hi friends from Apha Audio.
There really exist a way to control Audirvāna with others UPNP controllers like JPLAY app?
I read this here but never could implement. If this work with JPLAY in Audirvāna Linux could be a very good solution for me.
Cheers.
Hello Luciano,
Audirvana is a piece of software that works like a UPnP server and has its own UPnP controller interfase: the Audirvana Remote App, which controls the Audirvana server exclusively, next to the interface on Mac and Windows.
JPlay is an app that acts like a UPnP server and a UPnP controller as well.
Both apps stream to a UPnP renderer. A UPnP renderer is a streamer. So, JPlay cannot control Audirvana.