The regulators have since cracked down on this and now use ‘an algorithm that is designed to reflect human perceptions of loudness’ but it’s why commercials used to (and I expect still do in some regions) sound louder. To get around this advertisers used DRC to compress the audio on adverts to make them ‘appear’ louder. Regulations restricted advertisers and broadcasters from increasing the volume of commercials above the surrounding programming. a good example of DRC was it’s use in TV advertising. You’d be better off just increasing the volume.ĮQ, DSP and DRC should be something the users choses to enable, not something that is opaquely applied to every recording by a delivery system.ītw. If you use DRC to achieve a perceived volume increase, you’re doing that at the expense of dynamic range. No, it’s very easy to trick our brains into thinking something ‘sounds better’ simply by increasing the (perceived) volume. But at the end of the day you get what you pay for.Įither sounds better or it doesn’t, does it matter if it is ‘making you think’ it sounds better? Considering that they seem to be a much smaller company they are punching above their weight.Īudirvana also costs less, with roon costing ~40% more. So for me, roon wins on licensing, installation flexibility, multi-system/multi-zone setup and use, vastly superior remote app, metadata, networking protocol, UI, ease of use, overall better polish and “feel.”Īudirvana is nice for a simple organizing and playback system with streaming integration. Overall, though, roon is easier to figure out, more logical, and eaiser to use. Roon metadata seems better integrated with better connections between various elements.īoth have nice UIs, and both have quirks. RAAT is rock solid and bulletproof.Īudirvana has basic metadata, but it’s harder to access and harder to read. UPNP is more widely supported, but flaky. Even if you bought a second license they are both standalone systems, as far as I can tell.Īudirvana uses UPNP for network streaming/playback. Then, it’s not possible to select the other HTPC as the playback device or anything like that. Then it has to build its own separate copy of the library/database, and you have to reenter all the settings. To do this, you have to disconnect the first PC from your account and connect the second to your account.
#AUDIRVANA REVIEWS INSTALL#
So, I thought I’d install it on my desktop.
It’s basically just a list of albums, artists, tracks and playlists. So I installed the remote app, but it doesn’t have access to any of those features.
It appears to have some nifty filtering, playlist and dsp functions, but I wasn’t able to try them out much because I had it installed on an HTPC/HDTV setup and the fonts are too small to see from across the room, even at the largest setting. The software was also less buggy and seems more stable.
#AUDIRVANA REVIEWS REGISTRATION#
The setup and registration process for Windows was much improved v the last time.
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