Roon users might now wonder, as I did, about possible sonic advantages in making the switch inside the ‘rendu’s Sonicorbiter OS from Roon’s in-house coded RAAT to Audirvana Plus’s UPnP.įrom his latest blog post, Plisson asserts “With Audirvana Plus 3.1 your audio files can be sent to a network player to benefit from the sound quality of Audirvana Plus even when you Mac is not hooked to your audio system.”
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With Sonore’s UPnP rendering code at his disposal, Plisson could tailor his software app’s UPnP output to the ‘rendus and therefore ensure gapless payback wasn’t cast aside. Sonore’s Jesus Rodriguez hands over all the credit to Plisson: “The greatest contribution we made was simply to ask Damien to consider adding support for our gear:) Sure we provided hardware, opened our software, and assisted with updates to our system, but the bulk of the credit goes to Damien for his effort in adding UPnP support to Audirvana”. The results are already here with the Sonore products.” So there is still work to ensure it’ll work perfectly with network players from the different brands on the market. Here’s Plisson: “…the issue with UPnP/DLNA is the loose definition of the standard, and thus of the implementations, that leads to compatibility issues. Hashtag sadface.įor gapless playback we instead look to Sonore’s micro- and ultraRendu devices for which Audirvana Plus’s UPnP implementation was implemented as a bespoke fit. UPnP streamers using KEF’s own app don’t get gapless playback either. What we don’t get is gapless playback not attributable to Plisson’s efforts but a shortcoming in the LS50 Wireless’ firmware. What we get is the familiarity of Audirvana Plus’s interface and smartdevice control from the A+ Remote app (€10.99). If you’re using Audirvana Plus’s Tidal integration, make sure you don’t seek beyond the pre-load bar lest your Mac invites you for a game of catch on the beachball of death. As does tracking within a song using the seek slider. Hit play on any album or song and we’re off to the races. For the LS50 Wireless, it’s 24bit/192kHz PCM, no DSD (and no worries). These must be specified by the end user for both PCM and DSD. UPnP devices don’t return maximum sample-rate compatibility information to Audirvana Plus. With v3.1, Audirvana Plus auto-discovers UPnP network audio devices the KEF show up in the same output devices drop-down as USB devices. A UPnP-loaded Audirvana Plus beta allows us to sidestep the LS50 Wireless app completely. The KEF LS50 Wireless deliver a rival-demolishing value quotient but the associated control app is plainer than Jane. Then again, UPnP-ers don’t ask us to pony up US$119/year for UPnP. None seen by this commentator hold a candle to Roon. This decentralised free-for-all means quality varies from one UPnP-based audio streaming implementation to the next. The first casualty is often the UX. Or that same manufacturer can pull on the coat of an established third party for an off-the-shelf hardware/software combo as provided by StreamUnlimited, Convers Digital et al. What’s not to like about Universal Plug n Play (UPnP) when it comes to audio? Any manufacturer with the necessary software development chops can leverage UPnP for an in-house coded solution. Per the headline, v3.1 introduces UPnP network streaming. French software developer Damien Plisson has introduced a pubic beta of Audirvana Plus v3.1. This week, that ‘doesn’t’ moves to the past tense: ‘didn’t’. Audirvana Plus doesn’t do network streaming. For UX elegance, auto-tagging, meta information layer, music discovery and networked audio streaming, I opt for Roon.
With Mac + USB DAC, if I want the best sound quality (by a nose), I opt for Audirvana Plus.
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