But the interface is incredible, so might be worth the very slight hit in sound quality. I enjoy this sound mode more than running it through Amarra sQ since it looses a little dynamics and black background going thru Soundstream first. I'll give Amarra for Tidal a very slight win for sound quality but if you enable exclusive mode and integer mode in Roon, it has really great sound. It also combines your local library with Tidal. Bios and links to similar, influenced, followed artists. There are star ratings to know which are the better ones. The artists albums are in order by year and you can even reverse the order.
I'll keep this short since this is an Amarra thread, but I just tried Roon and it's everything I was complaining Amarra for Tidal and the Tidal app are missing. For now it's probably going to be either Apple Music or Tidal with Amarra SQ. Hopefully in time one will surface that ticks all of mine. It seems like we're in the middle of a bit of a confused time now with everybody rushing to market with services which don't quite tick all the boxes. This is in contrast to the jumbled mess on the Tidal app home-screen, which is a shame because they obviously have some very nice curated content too once you start digging down into the genres. " Bob Dylan's Bitter Break-Up Songs" or "Sufjan Stevens Deep Cuts"). It has a nice mix of some very interesting well thought out playlists and album selections based on the very few preferences I specified (e.g. Having said that the home-screen is very attractive and apple seems to understand the importance of creating an attractive personalised interface which will help people discover new music. I have some hopes for Apple Music via iTunes but disappointingly at the moment that seems to be very buggy to me too - some of the features seem to disappear then reappear and currently performing searches only seems to bring up artist radio stations. It seems like so far of all the services/players I have tried none of them can quite pull it all together. I want to be able to see all my favourite albums laid out beautifully. With giving up physical media, looks/info are very important to me and when I'm playing an album I want to be able to leave the screen displaying an attractive high res picture of the album/artist.
AUDIRVANA PLUS 2.5.2 TRIAL
I think you are bang-on the money with your points about meta-data features etc & by the sounds of it I need to give Roon a trial too. I suppose you could Roon now with Amarra sQ but still not going to be as good sounding as Amarra for Tidal. Then have a great interface that combines your home and Tidal music with all sorts of meta data and discovery features and best sound quality. Think the ultimate solution will be with Roon and HQ Player integrated. I think HQ Player was equal if not better but there is no ALAC support and their interface isn't great either. I've tried over and over to use Audirvana + but it's just not as musical sounding as Amarra. I find their stuff the clunkiest but in the end it sounds the best in my system. This is kind of like there other players. So if sound quality is your top priority and you can forgive the clunky interface, Amarra is your best bet. I also like the fact that it preloads multiple tracks so when you skip to the next one, it's instant. Wider soundstage, better dynamic, and a blacker background.
On the positive side, I do hear all the things the newsletter talks about. Like you, I wish they were able to just build something into the Tidal app itself to improve sound quality. And Tidal one isn't even that great compared to Spotify. Yeah, I like the Tidal app much better than the Amarra one. I commend Amarra and wish them luck in all they are doing and hope that this will, in time, become a little more polished. Sonically, after an hour of testing I do feel that it offers *perhaps* a slight improvement but its very close to call at least to my ears and with my equipment. That probably means that SQ is going to be best for me unless this gets some serious revision. I guess right now I'm feeling it would be preferable if Amarra just piggy-backed the Tidal desktop app for playback only (like HiFi does iTunes) rather than attempt to approximate the whole navigation and user experience. However good it sounds, in its current form there's no way this could replace the Tidal App for me. Playing the files however is fine and just as quick as the Tidal App. Visually and intuitively it's like taking a step back 10 years. I'll be interested to hear other people's experiences in case this is partly an issue with my bandwidth but everything seems very slow and navigation seems very clunky to me - searches are slow to return results & the whole thing seems to get confused and laboured very easily.
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