Basically, to change sample rate resolution I need to stop audirvana and air and restart again. I have to say that the sound with 16/44 material is miles better than with itunes to Air connection. If the preferred resolution in Air is set to other frequencies (176,4 or 192), then everything is up sampled by Audirvana to that resolution (since the Devialet shows, for example, 192/24 in its screen)- regardless of the Forced upsampling setting in Audirvana.
So, I have the best sound that I have ever heard, but I cannot change resolutions easily, without stopping and starting everything.
I don’t want to go through the USB route since in the future the computer will be farther than 5 meters from the amp, and also because I don’t want to spend money in specialist USB cables.
But with USB, everything works fine - except that the sound is not as good as with Air (in the cases I have managed it to work) and the difference is not subtle.This weekend I took the plunge and sought out the newest version of Audirvana, my preferred, nay, favorite audio playback software. I’ve been using it exclusively for listening to my local collection of music on my computers for nigh 4 years now and I love it. With a completely overhauled UI and a new Windows version to go along with it, there’s a lot of new code in here. I’ll be testing the MacOS version on my still functioning 2012 Mac Pro running Mac OS version 10.13. Audirvana (the “Plus” seems to have been dropped from the moniker) has so much new in it, I’m surprised the author didn’t give it a brand new 4.0 badge. Listening through a Topping DX7s DAC/AMP with Adam A7X monitor speakers and Hifiman HE4XX headphones. I will say straight away that I don’t think you’ll notice any change in sound quality. I don’t use any of the upsampling or signal processing options available – and there are several to choose from.
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