blessingx Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Possibly. Stereophile: Channel D Pure Vinyl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonebridge Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 New here....but this subject is also just starting over at audiocircle. I have noticed a number of Amarra fans here so it would be interesting to get more comparative information. I have been investigating the whole using a minimac thing as a music/video server and the associated software that can be used....this is another that makes it very hard not to go this route once taxes are paid up. Pure Music Player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Stonebridge thanks for the link, which has the below actual software URL that strangely I couldn't find off on Channel D's site. $79 for the next week. PURE-MUSIC-PLAYER.COM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
episiarch Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 With a 15-day demo, I'm going to have to try this. Thanks for the link, Ric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currawong Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 I tried Pure Vinyl briefly a few weeks ago, just after my iLok for Amarra arrived. I am liking Amarra (Mini) a little better at the moment, but then its improvement over iTunes is a little more colourful (for want of a better description). The Pure Music special is certainly a hell of a lot better value than Amarra Mini though, and it uses a lot less memory and is a lot less flakey with Apple Lossless files than the current Amarra Mini build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Going to give this a shot, too. I like Amarra, but agree the current build is annoying as hell with track switchovers etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Going to give this a shot, too. I like Amarra, but agree the current build is annoying as hell with track switchovers etc. Figure out the Amarra playlist feature and you will be happier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
episiarch Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 I need more time with it but I think I'm liking Pure Music. Haven't tried Amarra. In the course of playing around with settings I've also discovered I don't like the Mac's native upsampling from 44.1 to 96 kHz (this is with Lavry DA10). I'll be interested to hear if the forthcoming upsampling build of Pure Music is good enough to let me leave the output on 96 all the time instead of switching up only for HD tracks and back to 44.1 the rest of the time. Does anybody know what Pure Music is doing, anyway? Is it just adding some dither, or is there more to it than that? My laptop has enough other stuff running that I don't really think I'm getting a lot of benefit from the memory-play feature. Withholding description of what the Pure Music playback sounds like to me until I've listened more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 No one really knows what any of these playback engines are doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp11801 Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 I tried the channel D software and while it is a step in the right direction I thought it was not as good as amarra and actually clunkier. Nice to see a cheaper solution out there that is good but still needs some work sonically and with the interface. It is warmer sounding than amarra and I think not as detailed but that could also be my bias creeping in? WHo would have thought an audio player would be so dang difficult to make user friendly, crap the wave editor player still is wonky as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted March 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 I wonder if this software is not only cheaper initially, but doubly so with the lower hardware requirements (if the comparison page is to be believed). Is it true Amarra plays back audio files twice? Favorite part for me is this doesn't require a f$&@king iKey (and a wasted USB port). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Amarra lite doesn't require the iLok anymore either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Amarra lite? Mini still does as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 http://store.sonicstudio.com/amaspt.html Both amarra versions can be had without the ilok now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Hmm. I wonder how/if one can go from an iLok version to a machine-locked version? In general, I think moving to software-based authentication is a good thing and hope they'll go that way entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Well, then you can't move it from machine to machine at will. I'd prefer the ilok, honestly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filburt Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Does Amarra have a whitepaper describing what their software does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzziguy Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 Does it have anything to do with Mil-Spec software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadhead Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Does Amarra have a whitepaper describing what their software does? Not that I know of Filburt, but the software has been shown to be bit transparent (when set to max volume) so I guess that pretty much only leaves jitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetoole Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 How would the playback software impact jitter, assuming it isn't also a new hardware driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadhead Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 How would the playback software impact jitter, assuming it isn't also a new hardware driver? Exactly..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filburt Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Not that I know of Filburt, but the software has been shown to be bit transparent (when set to max volume) so I guess that pretty much only leaves jitter. So you're saying the output is quantitatively identical to the input? If so, I don't really understand what the purpose of this software is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreadhead Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 So you're saying the output is quantitatively identical to the input? If so, I don't really understand what the purpose of this software is. Exactly.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 This is like a couple of muslims debating whether or not judaism is the one true religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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