Audirvana Plus 2.2 User Manual
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1. eese nennen tnter 41 J Setup amp OptimizatiON euin piii pekpEPDEHU REX VERF A EDENDI AE DEENUR VETE ERE RE XQ RIDERE FAQ DERE FUN RM Mn 41 Selecting the DAG for audio OU DUE c adeeeessoiee 41 Note for Macs before 2008 end q sccssssssssssssssessssscocsssssessseesssesssnsrerocsnsssnensensesssescscococenscensnssnsssseraeoresonsnsssesnssssnsrarasoresse 41 General ODEUHZGL OD Sieninis 42 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual 1 Quick Start Guide The first time you launch Audirvana Plus you get a wizard dialog asking you two questions to get started Audirvana Setup Welcome to Audirvana Plus As this is the first time you launch the application here are the few options to configure to get started Audio Device to use for playback Built in Output Preferred controlled mode Audirvana Plus Library You ll be able to change them later in User Preferences 1 Select the Audio Device you want to use for playback Note that it needs to be connected for being in the list If it is not at the time you have launched Audirvana Plus you can connect it now and it ll appear in this list 2 Select the playback management mode except if you are a real fan of iTunes you ll choose the Audirvana Plus Library mode Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual The last step of the initial setup is to add your audio tracks to Audirvana Plus library Asusdimnan a Diro Select the folders to add to the library Users damien2. 28 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual 6 User Preferences General Settings amp X Audirvana Preferences em B7 o 4 a 8 General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer Library Remote control Use Apple IR Remote Use keyboard media keys for volume control Playlists Use UTF 8 character encoding for M3U playlists Autostart playback when opened from outside Use large font for playlist text Application updates Automatically check for updates Daily Automatically download updates Misc Prevent screen from going to sleep Display images at optimal screen resolution may be smaller Reset all dialog warnings Reset warnings Remote control options Using the Apple Infrared Remote control for play pause resume previous next and volume control A long key press on the prev or next button will seek backward forward the playback position for 10s Using the Apple keyboard media keys for play pause resume prev next and volume control Playlists options M8U playlist format can be interpreted like M3U8 that is with UTF 8 character encoding Note this is the way iTunes handles these M3U files Automatically start playback when Audirvana is opened with a track or playlist usually when double clicking on such a file in the Finder Save the current playlist when exiting and automatically reload it the next time Audirvana is opened Display playlist library tracks using a larger font Applicati
3. Freire Nelsnn Freire Composer Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Reethnven Ludwig Ludwit Ludwit Ludwi Ludwit Ludwit Ludwit Ludwit Ludwit Ludwit Ludwit Ludwit Ludwit l urdiwir The sort order of the tracks can be changed by clicking on a table column header Doing this will add the column as the first sort criteria in the order shown by the small arrow It can be also configured by raising the View Options window using the View menu command Show View Options or Cmd J shortcut Track List View Options Sort by in order of priority gt WN Criteria Album Disc Track Location lt gt lt gt lt gt lt gt lt gt Direction Ascending Ascending Ascending Ascending lt gt lt gt lt gt lt gt In this view Options window the list shows the sort criteria by decreasing order of priority They can be changed by clicking on them along with the order ascending amp descending The priorities can be reordered by dragging sort criteria to their new place Filtering Simple Search The first way to filter tracks is to enter keywords in the Search filed located at the right just above the list 12 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual V All vg Title udwit wg Artist udwi vg Composer dwi rg Grouping udwit vg Album udwit wger Beethoven Ludwit By def
4. Music CDth que Auto Sync Users damien Music SACDs uto Sync iTunes library synchronization Users damien Music iTunes iTunes Music Library Select Sync Delete Audirvana Plus database file location Users damien Library Application Support Audirvana Change Done There are two ways to do this 1 By adding the folders to sync with Audirvana Plus Under Select the folders to add to the library click on button at the bottom left of the list to raise the folders selection window This is the recommended method as any folder content update will then be automatically pushed to Audirvana Plus except for the network volumes Adding new files inside these folders will make their tracks automatically appear in Audirvana Plus 2 The other method is to synchronize with iTunes by importing iTunes library Under iTunes library synchronization Although this is one click to do it now this operation will need to be repeated each time the iTunes library is updated In addition with this method you need to ensure all your music files folders are accessible mounted before launching the synchronization For more details on the library synchronization options refer to the section on User preferences in this manual And you re ready for great musical moments You ll be able to change these settings later Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual 2 Main Window Mendelssohn BFO Horus 256fs DSDIFF i Le Budapest F
5. album 65mn 23s ml Album title Enables to change the album title 2 Album artist The main artist of the album 3 Album front cover image This can be changed either by dropping a new image on it or by pressing the change button and then selecting an image file in the file selection popup window 4 Album rating The whole album rating from O to 5 stars Note that to set the value of O the easiest way is usually to drag the rating to the left as if it was a cursor Example of metadata mass update You find inconsistencies in some metadata tags attached to the tracks in your library like for example with the Genre one where Pop Rock can be written for some tracks as PopRock Pop Rock Rock Pop or even Pop Rock Such a situation will make more difficult finding a track or an album e g using the Grouping feature of the albums view by Genre There is any easy way to fix this Switch to track list view in the main Library Music selected in the left panel Open the structured filter browser by clicking on its title located just above the tracks list Select only one criteria Genre 25 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Select in the values list just below all the Pop Rock PopRock In the track list below you get all tracks that are of Pop Rock genre Select them all using Cmd A shortcut Open the metadata editing panel if it is not already open Cmd I shortcut Edit the Genre tag setting Pop Rock Cli
6. album metadata information e g they have no such album title They can t be handled directly though albums However to ease the handling of these files they are still displayed in album view by being grouped by the folders they are in This is based on the assumption that when metadata is missing file folders are used to group audio files by folders Thus in the albums view folders of audio files with missing album metadata are handled like regular albums But note that these file folders can t bring the full features of albums and can t be found by the filters for albums e g a smart playlist with album title criteria will not find them Viewing an album tracks Clicking on an album front cover image opens its detailed view revealing the tracks that compose it and are present in the selected playlist library Bach Goldberg Variations 1 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Aria 05 39 2 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 1 1 Clav 01 47 3 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 2 1 Clav 02 35 4 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 3 Canone All Unis 03 24 5 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 4 1 Clav 01 10 6 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 5 1 Ovvero 2 Clav 01 23 7 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 6 Canone Alla Sec 01 22 8 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 7 1 Ovvero 2 Cla 02 32 9 Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988 Variatio 8 2 C
7. also prevents any other application to output sound during playback In addition to increase further the Sound Quality you can deactivate convenience functions Volume Control Audirvana Plus interacts with iTunes on a regular basis to exchange the volume control values This option deactivates this mechanism and thus iTunes and iPhone iPad Remote volume slider is not used anymore Play Position Audirvana Plus communicates the play position to iTunes and seeks to a new position when the slider in iTunes is moved This option deactivates this mechanism and thus iTunes and iPhone iPad Remote play position slider is not used anymore Furthermore the time indication remains to 00 00 during playback 7 Setup amp Optimization Selecting the DAC for audio output In User Preferences Audio System click on the Change button in the Preferred Audio Device section on the top of the panel Select the DAC in the drop down list of the popup window Click on Select to close the popup The DAC name shall appear under Active Audio Device Note for Macs before 2008 end If you encounter some short and frequent audio dropouts and you have a Mac from before 2008 end this may be due to insufficient USB bus power A workaround consists in plugging the DAC in a USB powered hub that is connected to the Mac Of course no other device shall be connected on the same hub 41 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual General Optimizations Plug the
8. based on a rectangular probability distribution function PDF and Type 2 dithering is a traditional dither based on a triangular PDF MBIT dither is based on a proprietary algorithm designed to offer superior results when used with all types of source material Some users will appreciate a choice of dithering type but for most users the MBIT type should be optimal in all cases Shape When using Type 1 or Type 2 dither this controls the noise shaping Dithering noise can be shaped in order to make it less audible Simple noise shaping performs simple high pass filtering on the noise Clear noise shaping aggressively moves the noise toward the Nyquist frequency Psych 5 is a bth order filter designed to move noise away from audible bands and Psych 9 is a 9th order filter with similar characteristics 35 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual When using MBIT dither this controls the amount of noise shaping The choices range from no noise shaping to very aggressive noise shaping providing approximately 14 dB of audible noise suppression at the expense of a higher noise floor Level When using Type 1 or Type 2 dither this controls the number of bits used to perform dithering In most cases 1 bit will suffice but over dithering with 2 bits can occasionally be useful When using MBIT dither this controls the amount of dithering The None and Low settings can leave some non linear quantization distortion or dither noise modulation whi
9. discs count in the set Year Usually the recording year Rating Track individual rating from O to 5 stars Note that to set the value of 0 the easiest way is usually to drag the rating to the left as if it was a cursor 22 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Extended Extended Conductor p Ensemble gt Venice Baroque Orchestra Soloist PN Giuliano Carmignola 3 Instrument Style a Period p 1 Conductor The name of the conductor usually in classical music 2 Ensemble The orchestra or band name 3 Soloist The name of the soloist 4 Instrument The main instrument e g Piano Violin Guitar 5 Style The piece format e g Sonata Concerto Symphony Opera or a style detailing the genre for non classical music Period The period of the music e g Baroque Romantic Oo Album Album Concerto Veneziano m sec Concerto veneziano Vivald Locatelli Giuliano Carmignola coce Baroque Orchestra Album Artist Giuliano Carmignola 3 Pm Album Rating KKK 4 1 Album title Changing the title enables to attach the track to already existing album when selecting one from the list in the popup menu that appears when typing the first letters of the album title or create a new one 2 Album artist name 3 Album image It can be changed by dropping another image on it 4 Album rating from O to 5 stars Note that to set the value of O the easiest way is usually to drag the rating to the
10. previous track if already at the beginning Keyboard shortcut Cmd Play Starts the audio playback and the following initialization steps if enabled in the 7 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual user preferences Take exclusive access of the audio device Select native device format audio stream for playback integer mode Deactivate the background process that might have been interfering e g TimeMachine Spotlight Note that this one is not enabled by default Start loading the first track and the next one And finally audio playback is started This button becomes a pause button when playing Keyboard shortcut Space Pause Pause the playback This exactly means output silence to the device and pause playback Please note the audio device is still active and fully controlled by Audirvana Plus This button becomes a resume button Play icon when in pause mode Keyboard shortcut Space Next Jump to Next track Keyboard shortcut Cmd gt Stop Fully stop audio playback release the audio device and restore the deactivated OSX services Below these buttons is the volume slider to control the audio volume level If the device provides no volume remote control and dithered volume control is not enabled in user preferences the volume control slider is not shown And the last line gives the current settings of the DAC bitdepth and sample rate Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Currently playing track info
11. the Play Queue Any track playlist album can be added to the end of the Play Queue by drag and dropping them on Play Queue on the list on the left of the main window Double clicking on a track album will start playback with it replacing the Play Queue with the album tracks when double clicking on an album or a track in an album in album view mode the playlist or whole library tracks when double clicking on a track in tracks list view mode The Play Queue can be reordered by drag and dropping tracks to their new place in the queue In addition tracks from outside the library can be directly added to the Play Queue Just drag tracks from iTunes or files playlists m3u or m3u8 folders from the Finder and drop them on the Play Queue These tracks are not added to the library they are just in the Play Queue Thus they can t be copied nor be edited in the metadata editor 3 Library Playlist views Tracks list view The tracks list view presents the tracks in the whole library or in a playlist according to the selection in the left panel list 11 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Genre Classical gt Composer Beethoven Ludwig Van gt All gt 107 tracks 17h 2mn Was m Oath WH ff WN Sorting Disc A o o M M 5 AQ AD AD AD AD Grouping Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 2 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 2 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 2 Piano Sonata No 13 in
12. the ability to invert globally the polarity of the audio signal either for all tracks or for only the tracks that have the invertpolarity keyword in their comments 34 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Audio Volume Settings o 2 Audirvana Preferences em y AU Ld General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer Library Volume control type DAC only DAC if available else software Software only Dithering type MBIT Shape High Level Normal Max bitdepth 24 bit Other parameters Auto blanking Minimize peaks Silence harmonics 0 100 Note that changes will be effective only upon next playback start Volume control type Your DAC may or may not offer remote volume control master or digital In this case the volume can still be controlled by Audirvana Plus but this will mean a reduction of the audio signal precision as it ll be performed in the digital domain Thus a dithering algorithm is used to lessen the audible impact of this digital volume control For improved sonic performance the dithering operation is automatically bypassed when the volume is set to 100 Dithering engine tweaking When using dithering volume control you have access to advanced parameters for the dithering engine Dithering Type Controls the type of dithering MBIT contains two traditional dithering types as well as the proprietary MBIT dithering type Type 1 dither is a traditional dither
13. their tracks are no more visible in the library except by view the Recycle bin Albums view The albums view presents the albums by their front cover image also called album artwork when available with their title and below the album artist or composer as selected in the view options 189 albums 3 725 tracks total time 12d 15h 2mn oo v Q Simone gt i enr sieht 45 Bach Goldberg Variations i Bach Partitas 1 5 amp 6 Bach English Suites 1 3 amp 6 Bach Goldberg Variations Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian EIEIEL La Petite Bande Bach Partitas 2 3 amp 4 Baroque Oboe Concertos Bach Cantatas BWV 179 35 164 amp 17 Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian The size of the front cover image is adjustable with the slider located at the bottom left of this view The album front cover image can be modified by dropping an image on the album displayed one either in the albums collection view or in the album tracks view The two buttons located at the bottom right are visible when grouping is enabled see below for more Note on audio files missing Album title metadata Albums are created from tracks sharing the same album title and album artist name metadata And these metadata are used throughout Audirvana Plus to filter and sort on album information 15 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Some audio files may be missing
14. 315 500 800 1 2 25 31 Bands Hint Hold down the control key to draw a Curve Presets Save Prese Apply Cancel Configuration of each Audio Unit plugin can be done either offline by clicking on Configure Click on Apply when done with the settings to save them Presets for each Audio Unit type can be saved or recalled Note that the presets can be saved on the user domain or local to the system possible only if the user has the authorization to modify system settings User and Local presets can be deleted by clicking on the button at the bottom left of the presets list after selecting the preset to delete Or configuration can be made in realtime during playback by using the option Healtime AudioUnits control and setup popup windows will open upon playback start for each Audio Unit Note that with the realtime setup the AudioUnits rendering is done during playback and thus for maintaining the optimal sound quality this option should be set to off after the 37 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual AudioUnits configuration is completed This will ensure the rendering is done during track loading process before playback The audio signal processing is done in the following order 1 File loading and decoding 2 Sample rate conversion if needed 3 Audio Units in the top to down order SysOptimizer amp Audirvana Preferences O B a o m General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer
15. Audirvana Plus Mendelssohn BFO Horus 256fs DSDIFF Budapest Festival Orchestra Ivan Fischer DSD256 Stereo Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Session INT SysOpt en 01 43 03 10 Ox The currently playing track info is composed of The album cover art thumbnail when available Clicking on the image opens a popup window with the full scale image of the album art The track title The track artist name The composer followed by the album name The file format bitdepth sample rate and channels information on the right Time information is given on the bottom line Elapsed time in minutes seconds on the left Track total duration or remaining time on the right switching between the two is done by clicking on it The graphical cursor moving from left to right representing the current play position o Dragging the playing position cursor or clicking directly on a different position makes the playback seek to this position o Inside this playing position bar is given information about the loading progress in form of a grey progress bar If the whole track can t fit in a single buffer then the parts of the track currently in memory are shown in dark grey while the others are in black Right of the total remaining time are two icons for loop amp shuffle play Clicking on one switches the on off status of loop playback loop to the first play queue track when the last track has been played or shuffle play in random order Thr
16. Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Thank for your purchase of Audirvana Plus the audiophile player that we hope will give you great musical moments with your Mac giving you the Sound of Your Dreams The next level in Sound Quality for your Mac Automatic sample rate switching Shortest audio realtime stream bypassing the CoreAudio high level processing of the audio signal Exclusive access and Integer Mode enabling to push the optimization at the audio device driver level by feeding it with signal already in the device native format Direct Mode for bypassing the CoreAudio low level processing of the audio signal and enabling Integer Mode in Lion and later Full memory play with complete loading decoding sample rate and format conversion as needed of the tracks before playing 64 bit internal processing of the audio signal when processing is needed Multichannel playback on multichannel devices Configurable up over sampling iZotope 64 bit SRC best in class sample rate conversion algorithm Dithered volume control with iZotope MBIT dithering highly advanced algorithm with auto bypass Audio Units plugins support for deep sound tuning SysOptimizer disabling the OS X background services potentially interfering with sound quality With the convenience of a complete library manager Automated synchronization of your music folders All the file formats Audirvana Plus can play are directly cataloged no n
17. DAC on a dedicated USB bus The USB plugs on your Mac are not equivalent One may be already shared with an internal peripheral like the built in iSight webcam To check your DAC is connected to the right plug 1 Use the System Information application you can launch from the Apple menu popping the About this Mac dialog Then click on More info 2 Scroll the left column down to the Hardware section 3 Select USB 4 Check on the top right pane that your DAC is listed alone under a High speed USB bus section Connect any other peripherals such as external hard drives to another bus or even to a Firewire or Thunderbolt one Enable SysOptimizer Enable SysOptimizer in the User Preferences to have more advanced optimizations performed automatically at each playback Set priority to Extreme Deactivate screen saver Using the option in the General page of Audirvana Plus preferences Disable energy saver In System Preferences Energy Saver set the Computer Sleep and the Display Sleep time to Never Minimize use of other applications Other applications might have peak demands on the CPU the RAM and or the hard drive degrading the sound quality even down to skips in audio playback in case of memory swapping to disk iZotope 64 bit SRC iZotope MBIT iZotope 2011 2015 iZotope Inc All Rights Reserved 42
18. E flat Op 2 Bagatelles Op 33 Title Andante Allegro Tempo Allegro Molto E Vivace Adagio Con Espressione Allegro Vivace Tempo Presto Andante Beethoven Piano Concerto 1 In C Op Beethoven Piano Concerto 1 In C Op Beethoven Piano Concerto 1 In C Op Beethoven Piano Concerto 2 In B Flat Beethoven Piano Concerto 2 In B Flat Beethoven Piano Concerto 2 In B Flat Sonata No 21 in C Op 53 Waldstein l A Sonata No 21 in C Op 53 Waldstein ll Snnata Nn 21 in C On 53 Walrstein ill Album viu Pa T Reethnven Snnata Nn 14 The tracks are shown in a list view with the displayed columns as selected by the user This selection is done in a popup menu that is raised by a secondary click or Ctrl Click on the list header row Columns can then be resized and reordered using mouse dragging operations v Artist Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Argerich Collection 2 Argerich Collection 2 Argerich Collection 2 Argerich Collection 2 Argerich Collection 2 Argerich Collection 2 Beethoven Sonata No 14 l Beethoven Sonata No 14 Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Martha Arger Martha Arger Martha Arger Martha Arger Martha Arger Martha Arger Nelson Freire Nelson
19. Library SysOptimizer optimizes OSX for Audio Playback by deactivating non essential services that can cause inteferences detrimental to sound quality Optimize System for Audio Playback Audirvana Plus priority Extreme Disable Spotlight Disable Time Machine Disable detection of iDevices on USB Selected services are deactivated upon playback start and restored after stop opotlight Time Machine are resource hungry background processes that create important activity of the disk drives and thus interferences detrimental to the sound quality The automated detection of iDevices on USB can even cause audible clicks It is therefore strongly advised to enable SysOptimizer It will deactivate these interfering background services at playback start and reactivate them upon stop In addition SysOptimizer can increase the priority of Audirvana Plus during playback to maximize the precision of the audio streaming 38 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Library e Audirvana Preferences y AU Lad osam General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer Library Select the folders to add to the library Users damien Music CDth que Auto Sync Users damien Music SACDs Auto Sync iTunes library synchronization Users damien Music iTunes iTunes Music Library Select Sync Delete Audirvana Plus database file location Users damien Library Application Support Audirvana Change The libra
20. a nenne tette tnter 18 Ree le 6 0 eer errr mre ias edem nr err eon never aren arte DIEM CEU EI UNUM IEEE EU 18 5 MODEUNDETEOEIBE icsse kisiera kE nr PRODR rere EPRERMN rer one AE tame et rT oa UD 19 GEILE 006 1 91 09 12 00 6 oyna meneer AA E A A nM ean eer ere denen ee ere eee ee nee errs 20 Single Track metadata editing C R 21 UENS TEE ste E AEE map T E AAA E AA A A A A ees eietaweeseseses 24 ADUD eaea E E A E AEE E NE AE S A EA E E E E 24 Example of metadata mass update s ss sssssunsansssusrusnusnreonnsansansnnusnsnunsannsureaanannnnnoaasdnsnnnsnnnntnansannannsaddnnanaatsansansaanennnatsaanannns 25 5 Legacy iTunes integrated mode sesesesesececececececesececececececececececececececececesecesecececesesececese 26 Tan Or EU ON S e E A eetatarenstoedi en HEIDE IE DEDN IAN D DEMEURE 26 Vonne GOTE aE HH 26 Der DaO aaia EE R A E E E N 27 A ACO Er E NO a A E E A A A AEA 28 Os Eer Pr TEO aa E E eeaeeemn eee 29 SSAA ENN RET A 29 Audo Sy Em S CE E eap A eee E E ear eee ee MEDIUM te 30 Aadio Fi re SOLE O aeaa er ee er E DE EE 33 Aado Volne SEEEIHES esci oun EEUU re eee eee MEM 35 AO CUTAN rc 37 OP aa E 38 LIDEN a an e rE E EEE A E E E A A A E E E e NE 39 iTunes Only for legacy iTunes integrated mode
21. ate Upsampling is forced Two different Sample Rate Converter algorithms are proposed the standard Apple CoreAudio or the gold standard iZotope 64 bit SRC Sample Rate Converter Settings Use the quality slider to set the desired quality level Note that with high initial sample rates the best quality setting especially for Apple CoreAudio may be demanding too much computing power for some Macs thus giving in playback pauses For iZotope 64 bit SRC you have access to advanced detailed parameters to tune the sample rate converter filters Steepness steepness of the transition band of the lowpass filter Higher steepness will reject unwanted frequencies but cause more ringing in the time domain and a higher CPU load 33 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Max filter length controls the memory and CPU usage used by the resampling filter Default value 500k should be sufficient for most applications Can be increased for getting vey high quality output for very high sample rates e g DSD downsampling Cutoff cutoff frequency is computed by multiplying the Nyquist frequency by the value of the cutoff scaling parameter Larger values of cutoff scaling offer a flatter pass band while smaller values offer better aliasing suppression Anti Aliasing the amount of suppression in the lowpass filter s stop band Any frequencies in the stop band which are not fully attenuated will result in aliasing which is when these unwanted f
22. ault the search will be a full text search on all text criteria give list It can be also restricted to a single one by clicking on the small arrow in the search field and selecting the criteria Track title Artist Composer Grouping Album 13 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Structured filter browser The line of text located just above the list gives a summary of the structured filter currently active Genre Classical gt Composer Beethoven Ludwig Van gt Grouping Piano Concerto 2 In B Flat Op 19 gt All gt 9 tracks 1h 25mn Clicking on it expands the structured filter browser view Genre Classical gt Composer Beethoven Ludwig Van gt Grouping Piano Concerto 2 In B Flat Op 19 gt All gt 9 tracks 1h 25mn Genre Composer Grouping All 24 genres All 94 composers All 8 groupings Alternative Rock Alb niz Isaac Bagatelles Op 33 Ambient Antonio Vivaldi Piano Concerto 1 In C Op 15 Audio Test Cd Arcangelo Corelli Piano Concerto 2 In B Flat Op 19 Autre Bach Jean Sebastien Piano Concerto 3 In C Minor Op 37 Children s Bach Johann Sebastian Piano Concerto 4 In G Op 58 Classical Beethoven Ludwig Van Piano Concerto No 5 E dur op 73 Classique Benjamin Britten 1913 1976 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 27 No 1 Electronic Berg Alban Violin Concerto in D Major Op 61 The structured filter is made of successive filters ordered from left to right The items selected in the first filter give a filtered
23. ayed metadata to the next track in the playlist album Cross Close metadata editor pane shortcut Cmd Save Revert When any metadata value is modified two buttons appear at the bottom of the metadata editor panel as shown above Save shortcut Cmd S Save to Audirvana Plus database and to the corresponding audio file even all tracks audio files in case of an album editing the changes The corresponding audio file needs to be accessible for the save operation to work Revert shortcut Cmd Discard any changes and revert to the tracks previous values 20 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Single track metadata editing When a single track is selected in tracks list view or in the track lists of an album in album view the metadata panel looks like below lt Track Details File gt 10 Venice Baroque ncerto in A D 96 dsf DSF 1bit 2 8MHz DSD64 Stereo Duration 05 18 Bitrate 5644kbps General Title 1 Allegro V X C e Y 3 e Violin Concerto in A D 96 Artist Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Composer Tartini Giuseppe Genre Classical Track out of Disc out of Year Extended Album P It presents four blocks of metadata that can be collapsed or expanded by clicking on the Hide or Show button on the right of their header bar Extended Hide Conductor File amp General The first two blocks show the most usual metadata for and audio track 21 eo QU Aud
24. ck on the Save button hats it 5 Legacy iTunes integrated mode Audirvana can be fully controlled by iTunes for the playback operations tracks selection play pause seek the usual iTunes way of playing music This also gives you the opportunity to use the Remote application running on iPhone or iPad for remote control But note that the sound quality will be affected by having iTunes running along with Audirvana Plus In this mode the Audirvana Plus main window is still active and can be raised if desired by clicking on the Audirvana Plus dock icon Although iTunes is in control the parameters set in the Audirvana Plus user preferences still take precedence over any iTunes AudioMidi Setup similar configurations Note that Audirvana Plus will play all iTunes music files except DRM protected tracks on the Cloud or on Home Sharing libraries and automatically deactivate itself for the Internet radios that will still be played directly by iTunes You can switch between the classic playlist mode and the complete iTunes integration by using the Tunes Integrated Mode command in the Audirvana Plus menu This is the Audirvana Plus window in iTunes integrated mode Sonate op 1 N 1 en ut mineur Transport Buttons Refer to the library description of the Transport controls Volume Control Volume Knob There are three types of volume control depending on the device 26 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual capabilities and th
25. d The audio files will be sent to trash The operation cannot be undone Move to trash 4 Metadata editing The metadata for a track multiple tracks at a time and an album can be edited by using the Show Metadata command of the View menu or Cmd I shortcut This opens the metadata editor panel on the right of Audirvana Plus window displaying the metadata of the selected items lt Track Details gt x File 10 Venice Baroque ncerto in A D 96 dsf DSF 1bit 2 8MHz DSD64 Stereo Duration 05 18 Bitrate 5644kbps General Title 1 Allegro Grouping Violin Concerto in A D 96 Artist Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Composer Tartini Giuseppe Genre Its contents are updated when the selection e g track album changes to display the new selection metadata So the metadata panel can be used to show the detailed metadata of a track or album even when not willing to edit it Note that all audio file types are supported for metadata editing except currently SACD ISO images and Cue Sheets 19 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Generic commands lt Track Details gt X The top bar of the metadata panel tells the type of item currently displayed and provides three buttons for navigating Left arrow Previous Item shortcut Cmd changes the selection and displayed metadata to the previous track in the playlist album Right arrow Next Item shorcut Cmd changes the selection and displ
26. e user preferences Master red cursor the device provides a remote volume control feature that is inside the DAC and normally of optimal quality See your DAC user manual for this Digital blue cursor typically digital volume control at the device driver level so still in the computer with potential associated resolution loss Should typically be set at OdB to ensure bit perfect output Dithered green cursor volume control computed by Audirvana Plus with dithering to strive to maintain the best possible sound quality for this digital type of volume control The current value of volume control is displayed under the knob If the device provides no volume remote control and dithered volume control is not enabled in user preferences the volume control knob is inactive Depending on the user preferences the knob is rotated using a vertical default horizontal or rotational motion of the mouse Other buttons Disp Off Hide all Audirvana windows Power Immediately terminates audio playback and exit Inside the LCD display The track title artist album and composer are displayed in the LCD display The album image is gathered from in order of priority The image embedded in the audio file Afolder jpg cover jpg image file in the same folder as the audio file The first file found ending with Sleeve jpg or the first file found with the jpg extension in the same folder as the audio file Technical information is
27. ed or default if not connected audio device name is displayed in the Active Audio Device paragraph as well as its handled sample rates DSD playback These options just under the list of available sample rates enable to select the way DSD audio is sent to the DAC and the if needed DSD to PCM conversion algorithm Native DSD Capability Automatic Detection should work for nearly all DACs Although if the native DSD capabilities of your DAC are not automatically recognized DSD64 and or DSD128 not highlighted you can force native DSD 30 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual streaming DSD over PCM standard 1 0 is the most common streaming method found in recent DSD DACs DSD to PCM Algorithm When not using native streaming the DSD signal needs to be converted to PCM before being sent to the DAC 64bit Multistage gives the best results and should be used except if you have CPU performance issues Simple Decimation the algorithm used before version 1 3 enables to convert to 96kHz for devices limited to this sample rate and not offering 88 2kHz Low level playback options The options should normally not be changed as the best mode is automatically used when all they are enabled plug and play concept Exclusive access mode When playing Audirvana Plus takes full control of the audio device preventing any unwanted interferences from other applications e g system beeps Direct Mode In this mode Audirvana Plus bypasses c
28. ee indicators are under the file sample rate information bottom right INT the playback is performed in Integer Mode Best possible quality Inverted icon the yellow inverted icon indicates that the currently playing track audio signal is phase inverted before being sent to the DAC SysOpt SysOptimizer is in operation when this is displayed in green and scheduled to stop when displayed in brown SysOptimizer is automatically stopped on minute after playback has been fully stopped Libraries amp playlists Sources gt Play Queue J Library Playlists 39 5 stars f Electro Newly Added f Pop Selection wf Theme Dance Floor Folk 2N Kids On the left of the main window is the list of libraries and playlists Play Queue This is the list of tracks that have just been or are about to be played Ad Wr on oa amp 11 12 Music Q N AUN aN QA amp Disc Grouping 1 Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat K 2 1 Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat K 2 1 Piano Concerto No 9 in flat K 2 1 Variations In F Minor 1 Piano Sonata No 15 in F K 533 494 1 Piano Sonata No 15 in F K 533 494 1 Piano Sonata No 15 in F K 533 494 2 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 2 2 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 2 2 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 2 2 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 2 2 Piano Sonata No 21 in B flat D 960 Title Allegro Andantino Hondeau Presto Variations In F Minor Al
29. eed for any proxy file Advanced metadata editing including the extended fields for classical music Album view with grouping by user selectable criteria e g genre composer album artist Structured filter browser to quickly narrow the search for the music you want to listen to Smart playlists Full text search And ability to be remote controlled from A Remote for iPhone iPad iPod touch Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Always with modern convenience Device hot plugging support along with automatic features detection making optimal configuration a breeze e Media Keys Apple IR Remote for ease of control And all popular file formats e AIFF WAVE AAC MP3 e FLAC Monkey Audio APE WavPack Apple Lossless e DSD DSDIFF including DST compressed DSF and SACD ISO images with native streaming to supported DACs or through high quality realtime conversion to PCM Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Table of Contents EEG ee ge SU Ts cU RUM 5 Be PANE Smet 7 Tran POr ONTOS E eases E een ear rn rr ee ene ee er ere E d Curren y playing rack MiO M 9 Libraries amp playliste oec iaioe anisa dae eia a aaa a d aa aai aiae eaa baaa aa 10 Adding tracks to the adc VEO aa Eear ONEN arbaa odan aieiaa 11 3 EARS Playlist VIEUUS 2 rodeo pie tia cin Rive ei inik ra n NETANE E NEEE UM M RE 11 bore e a A ee ee er A E A A A E A 11 AIDUPDHIS VON oE E 15 Switching views highlighting playing track sesent
30. ending The priorities can be reordered by dragging sort criteria to their new place The second line below the album front cover image can be chosen between the album artist the artist and the composer note that in case of an album with different composers only one of the composers or artist is displayed In addition the first sort criteria can be used to split the album list in groups by selecting the Automatically group albums using the first criteria option This gives a view of albums as shown below 326 albums 3 725 tracks total time 12d 15h 2mn oo Y Q ALDO Camille T Saint Sa ns x CICCOLINI Symphonie n 3 b a avec orgue uvres de Chabrier Bizet Laio Marce Ogri rten eei d Paul Paray f Diapason HS N 21 Camille Sai Piano Concertos 2 amp 4 COLLECTION ANINA PTERA PI CES DEUX PIANOS Sam Sabs Fa bara Pose Ax hs E 7 Can Corsi m on an haaran ts omo tems camis ha ee Aet SW Pi ces pour piano Saint Saens Concertos amp Chamb bg 27B 7a Cee Expand all groups Collapse all groups 17 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Each group can be collapsed showing only the group title with the number of albums in it or expanded to reveal the albums of the group by clicking on the arrow on the left of the group title line All groups can be collapsed at once or expanded by clicking on one of the two buttons located at the bottom right of the view Expand all groups Collapse al
31. estival Orchestra Ivan Fischer DSD256 Stereo c INT SysOpt 03 10 Ox z Play Queue File J Library j gt 10 Venice Baroque oncerto in A D 96 dsf T DSF 1bit 2 8MHz DSD64 Stereo Playlists j Duration 05 18 Bitrate 5644kbps vJ Classical Bach ST Beethoven Chopin Piano Works Disc 7 Chopin Sonata No 2 Et Chopin pin Fr d ric Francois ri rang vE FileTypes pa a 1 Violin Concerto in A D 96 DSDIFF 1 i Artist No SACD WA T SACDISO ELE i Composer HiRes ER artini Giuseppe o Diuliona X Rock Genre Track amp out of 13 Disc G out of T voar 2608 Laau 777 Chostakovich Symphony Ciccolini Enregistrements TOE Wet Wed ULO VOLO F o Concerto Veneziano Concerto 1 Allegro Capriccio Cadenza veneziano 2 Largo 3 Allegro Capriccio Allegro Violin Concerto in A D 96 Tartini Giuseppe Audirvana Plus main window is composed of 4 zones 1 Top The transport controls e g Play Pause Next and currently playing track info 2 Left The Play Queue list of tracks currently playing the whole Music library and the hierarchical list of playlists 3 Center The albums or tracks list view of the item selected on the left 4 Right If visible the metadata editor of the selected item s in the center Transport controls ee e nm m lt p 3 50B DAC DSD256 Stereo On the left are the main playback control buttons Prev Jump to beginning of current track or to
32. g Van Beethoven Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig Van Schubert Franz Edit smart playlist DSD Delete DSD Export playlist DSD New Playlist Creates a new playlist to store and order manually tracks New Smart Playlist Creates a new playlist automatically populated with tracks matching some defined criteria These criteria are defined in the window that pops up New Folder Creates a folder to store playlists 10 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual o Import playlist Creates a new playlist from the tracks referenced in a playlist file M3U format Note that only the playlist tracks found in the library will be in the newly created playlist o Edit Smart Playlist Pops up the window to edit the criteria to select the tracks that are in the selected playlist o Delete Playlist removes the selected playlist o Export playlist Saves in a playlist file M3U format references to the tracks in the playlist to be exported If the playlist is made from criteria smart playlist then the criteria are also saved in the playlist file for re creating a smart playlist when importing the created M3U file in Audirvana Plus Please note that multi tracks files SACD ISO Cue Sheets are not supported by the M3U standard These playlist actions can also be accessed through the File menu and a secondary click Or Ctrl click on a playlist that reveals a popup menu of the possible actions Adding tracks to
33. given at the bottom of the LCD screen Onthe left Playing track file type and native bit depth and sample rate On the right The DAC current bit depth and sample rate On the right column are some playback status indicators CPU the red CPU sign indicates an unexpected pause in audio playback The most frequent source of such issues is a lack of available memory Try to exit other memory hungry applications e g Safari and or to reduce the audio buffers maximum allowed size in User Preferences gt Audio System INT the playback is performed in Integer Mode Best possible quality Inverted icon the yellow inverted icon indicates that the currently playing track audio signal is phase inverted before being sent to the DAC Loop icon toggle button to un select loop playback Shuffle icon toggle button to un select shuffle playback 2f Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Track playing position The current playing position in minutes seconds is displayed on the left and the track total duration is on the right of the playing position cursor Dragging the playing position cursor or clicking directly on a different position makes the playback seek to this position Inside this playing position track is given information about the loading progress in form of a grey progress bar If the whole track can t fit in a single buffer then the parts of the track currently in memory are shown in dark grey while the others are in black
34. iel du Salo Albrechtsberger Sonata per vi Quatuor Mosaiques Autre 03 32 96kHz 24 Album Officiel du Salo Beethoven Symphonie n 5 e David Grimal Autre 06 33 48kHz 24 Alhiim Official Anu Qala 1n QGnrhi imann Nuintatta auar nia Navid K ane ioOh Airra NAAR ORLH OA Restore selected tracks Delete selected audio files Close It presents the list of tracks that have been deleted from the library see Deleting tracks for how to sorted by album and track number Restoring tracks back to the library By clicking on Restore selected tracks button the selected tracks will be placed back into the library Deleting permanently tracks By pressing on the Delete selected audio files button the audio files corresponding to the selected tracks will be deleted from disk Warning For local volumes this will mean the audio files are moved to the trash but for network shares the audio files will be deleted permanently An additional warning message will ask to confirm this permanent not undoable operation 18 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Please note that some audio files may contain several tracks e g SACD ISO images Cue Sheets In this case deleting permanently the audio file will remove all of its tracks from the database This is stated in a special warning message as shown in the example below Do you really want to send to trash the e selected track Note that 8 other tracks using the same audio files will be delete
35. irvana Plus 2 2 User Manual File Y 10 Venice Baroque ncerto in A D 96 dsf Users damien Music SACDs OB rmignota Concerto Veneziano 10 Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Marcon Giuliano Carmignol 1 All DSF 1bit 2 8MHz DSD64 Stereo Duration 05 18 Bitrate 5644kbps General Title 1 Allegro Xrouping Violin Concerto in A D 96 Artist Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea omposer Tartini Giuseppe Genre 4 Classical Track out of Disc out of Year o I Rating o o Corresponding audio file name and full path the full path can be hidden by clicking on the small triangle left of the file name Clicking on the arrow on the right of the path reveals the audio file in a Finder window Track title Grouping title Example of usual use of the Grouping metadata is to group movement tracks of the same piece e g in classical music a concerto made of three movements where the grouping title is the name of the piece and the tracks individual titles are the movement names Artist name Composer name When typing the first letters of the name a list of artists composers already in the database is presented in a popup menu to allow for faster typing and help avoiding duplicates due to typos Genre name When typing the first letters of the name a list of genres already in the database is presented in a popup menu for faster typing Track number total track count in the set disc Disc Number total
36. l groups Note that aloums that have tracks belonging to different groups will be split among those groups Switching views highlighting playing track Switching between view types list or album is done using the view type button shown below oo V Q Tracks List In any view the currently playing track can be highlighted when present in the currently viewed playlist by using the Scroll to playing track command of the View menu or using Cmd L shortcut Recycle bin The Recycle Bin can be opened by using the View Recycle Bin command of the View menu Library Recycle Bin Album Disc Tr Grouping Title Artist Composer Genre Dur Spi Rate B Album Officiel du Salo 1 1 Bach Suite n 1 en sol majeur Ophelie Gaillard Bach Jo Autre Album Officiel du Salo Bach Suite n 1 en sol majeur Oph lie Gaillard Bach Jo Autre 04 35 96kHz 24 Album Officiel du Salo Les Grands offertoires gr gorie Les Chantres du Autre 06 30 96kHz 24 Album Officiel du Salo Album Officiel du Salo Bach Concerto dans le go t it Benjamin Alard Bach Jo Autre 04 28 96kHz 24 Bach Passion selon Saint Jea Philippe Pierlot Bach Jo Autre 04 20 88 2kHz 24 RA e oaths enl mA b bo onl wh oon ooo ODN Album Officiel du Salo Rameau Les Indes Galantes Yves Rechsteiner Autre 01 17 88 2kHz 24 Album Officiel du Salo Cage In A Landscape Tir de Francesco Tristano Autre 09 01 44 1kHz 24 Album Offic
37. lav 01 53 10 Rach Goldhero Variations RWV 988 Variatio 9 Canone Alla Terz 01 53 The tracks list is sorted by track number and the rows are grouped according to the Grouping or musical piece information This enables to quickly see the pieces and their movements e g in classical music When different composers are on the same album the composer is displayed inside parentheses on the Grouping row Dragging a grouping row to the Play Queue or a playlist will take all the tracks inside the grouping In addition below the album front cover enlarged view see R blue sign is the album rating information O to 5 stars Clicking on it will change the album rating Note that to set rating of value O the easiest way is to drag the value with the mouse to the left like if it was a cursor View Options amp Grouping The View Options window is raised by using the Show View Options command of the View menu or Cmd J shortcut 16 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual e Album View Options Sort by in order of priority Criteria Direction Composer Ascending 2 Album Title Ascending Ascending A Automatically group albums using the first criteria Album Vignette subtitle Composer Dark Mode As for the tracks list view the sort order of the albums can be configured in the list presenting the sort criteria by decreasing order of priority They can be changed by clicking on them along with the order ascending amp desc
38. le higher settings completely eliminate the non linear distortion at the expense of a slightly increased noise floor The Normal setting should suffice for most cases Max bitdepth The bitdepth offered by the audio device interface e g USB may be higher than the one the DAC can handle or even the DAC linear range may be in a lower bit depth 20bit instead of 24bit This enables to use MBIT high quality dithering to deliver signal best tuned for the DAC by fitting its linear range AutoBlanking It is sometimes convenient to completely suppress dithering noise during periods of digital silence When auto blanking is enabled MBIT will mute dither output when the input is completely silent for at least 0 7 seconds MinimizePeaks Dither noise is random in nature and has a very low amplitude However after noise shaping especially in aggressive dithering modes the high frequency dither noise is significantly amplified and the overall dither signal can show spurious peaks up to 60 dB FS If such high peaks are undesirable you can enable the Limit Peaks option to effectively suppress the spurious peaks in the noise shaped dither Silence Harmonics If for some reason any dithering noise is undesirable simple truncation remains the only choice Truncation results in harmonic quantization distortion that adds overtones to the signal and distorts the timbre In this case you can enable the Suppress Harmonics option to slightly alter the trunca
39. left as if it was a cursor Note that changing the album artist image or rating will do it for all the tracks of the album a warning popup will ask for confirmation 23 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Comments Comments Comments Free text comments Note that the INVERTPOLARITY keyword in comments is recognized by the playback engine to invert the polarity of the track before playing it Multiple tracks When multiple tracks are selected the metadata panel displays the metadata fields whose values are common among the selected tracks The other fields are left empty 3 Tracks Details x General Title C Oo c 9g 2 Violin Concerto in A D 96 Artist Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Marcq O 3 o o o Tartini Giuseppe Genre Classical Track e out of Disc out of Year BPM BPM Rating When a field is modified the checkbox left of it is automatically ticked to tell this metadata field should be modified for all the selected tracks Unticking it will tell to ignore the change Album When an album is selected whole album specific metadata can be edited 24 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual lt Album Details X Album Title Concerto Venezano jj Album Artist Giuliano Carmignola ABCNUY Concerto veneziano Giuliano Carmignola Venice Baroat e Ore estrc m Vivaldi Locatelli w Change Album Rating Xx o x Q 13 tracks in
40. legro K 533 Andante K 533 Rondo Allegretto K 494 Andante Allegro Tempo Allegro Molto E Vivace Adagio Con Espressione Allegro Vivace Tempo Presto Molto Moderato Album Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Far Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare Alfred Brendel The Fare o Tracks that have been played are displayed in grey o Currently playing track in red o Nexttrack to play loaded in memory in green o Tracks about to be played later in dark blue The whole music library cataloged by Audirvana Plus Playlists Hierarchical list of folders of playlists The playlists can be reordered in the hierarchy using drag and drop operation The bottom toolbar buttons give access to playlists actions 19b v New playlist New smart playlist New folder Import playlist am Artist Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Composer Mozart Wolfgang A Mozart Wolfgang A Mozart Wolfgang A Haydn Franz Joseph Mozart Wolfgang A Mozart Wolfgang A Mozart Wolfgang A Beethoven Ludwi
41. list of tracks that provide the values for the second criteria And so on for the next ones So this enables to narrow the search by successive steps As an example you can select first the genre and keep only classical then the composer here Bach amp Beethoven then the Grouping piece name To select change a criteria click on the button at the top of the filter step box this raises a menu of the available criteria as shown below XI gt 2 In B Flat Artist All 8 grouping Album Bagatelles C Album Artist Piano Conce Composer Genre Piano Conce Conductor Piano Conce Ensemble Piano Conce Soloist Piano Sonate Period Violin Concei Style Album Instrument 3 Beeth Track Rating L Beeth Album Rating Beeth File Type Beeth Sample Rate 1 Beeth Bit Depth 4 Beeth Audio Channels 1 Then you can select the items you want to retain in the values list for filtering the tracks And so on Selecting a blank criterion disables the specific filter and is the equivalent of selecting the All line in the values of the filter And the tracks list below is showing the tracks of the library playlist filtered by both the structured filter and the search field 14 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Deleting tracks By pressing the Backspace key the selected tracks are moved to the recycle bin of Audirvana Plus This also removes the track from any playlist it was referenced in The corresponding audio files are untouched but
42. n connected using a S PDIF i2S connection you can enter the DAC limitations to prevent Audirvana Plus from attempting to use unhandled sample rates Set the Max spl rate limit for this To give enough time to the DAC to synchronize its clocks upon a sample rate change and avoid missing the first notes of a track set the right Sp rate switching latency depending on you DAC e g the advanced synchronization locking of the AMR DP 777 may need up to 4s 31 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual In addition if the bridge is offering both 24bit and 32bit bitdepth you can limit the bitdepth to 24bit by selecting Limit max bitdepth to 24bit instead of 32bit Multichannel capability The total number of channels of the audio device is shown as well as the channels configuration in use In the case the audio device is used only in two channels stereo output the option Use as stereo only can be used to optimize the audio path The channel configuration is the one set using the OS X AudioMidi Setup application Au gio Vevice v Built in 2in 00 EEG Stereo Multichannel 7 1 Surround Built in P Qin 2g foreach speaker choose the device channel connected to the speaker To test the connection click a speaker to play a sound Hom sub woofer AMR US center 2in 220 ps left center 3 exD US 0in 20 7 left right surround surround 5 6 Speakers Done Apply Af
43. ompletely CoreAudio including its low level layers This enables a further shorter audio signal path for better sound quality and gives possibility to enable Integer Mode in Lion and later Integer mode In this mode Audirvana Plus directly sends the audio data to the lowest level in CoreAudio bypassing the driver audio mixer and the format converter This enables to achieve very high sound quality There are two different streaming modes in Integer Mode Mode 1 that brings the highest transparency and soundstage depth Mode 2 that is more on the warm side Choose the one that fits the best your system and listening tastes Note that not all audio devices support Integer Mode and only the green INT indicator during playback in the main Audirvana Plus window will show Integer Mode is effective More information in Audirvana OSX Bit Perfect and Integer Mode Audio buffers memory allocation Set the maximum amount of memory Audirvana Plus can use for loading the audio tracks in memory Increasing this value will reduce further the disk accesses and the associated interferences But a too high value can lead to memory exhaustion especially if other memory hungry applications such as Safari are running and cause RAM swapping to disk that ll be audible as audio drop outs As a rule of thumb it is best to leave at least 2 5GB RAM to the OS Bridge DAC configurations In the case the Mac is connected to bridge on which the DAC is the
44. on Updates Audirvana Plus can automatically connect to audirvana com server to check if an updated version is available and propose to download it Miscellaneous options During playback Audirvana Plus can deactivate the screen saver 29 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Some user operation warnings e g delete tracks from library can be deactivated This command reactivates them Audio System Settings E Audirvana Preferences p Q E io General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer Library Preferred Audio Device Built in Output Change Active Audio Device Built in Output 44 1 48 882 96 Stereo Native DSD Capability Automatic Detection DSD to PCM Algorithm 64bit Multistage ooo with boost of 6dB Low level playback options Exclusive access mode Direct Mode Integer mode if avail on device Integer Mode Mode 1 Maximum memory allocated for tracks pre load 4 864 MB 120mn 44 1kHz 55mn 96kHz For bridge devices connected to a DAC Max sample rate limit No Limit Spl rate switching latency None Limit max bitdepth to 24bit instead of 32bit Selecting the Audio Device Audirvana Plus uses a hot plugging mechanism you select your preferred Audio Device It is used if available connected when starting playback otherwise the system default device is used You can select your preferred audio device by clicking on the Change button in the Preferred Audio Device paragraph The preferr
45. racks that are more recent in the iTunes library 2 import the iTunes playlists The smart playlists are imported as manual ones as their predicate is unfortunately stored in an iTunes proprietary format not readable by any other application 3 update in iTunes the tracks modified in 39 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Audirvana Plus this will launch iTunes during this step In case of synchronization conflict the priority is given to changes made in Audirvana Plus over in iTunes Click on Delete to remove the tracks and playlists imported from iTunes The tracks that are also in folders in the synchronization list will be preserved Note that this operation will need to be repeated each time the iTunes library is updated As there may be some latency in iTunes to save its latest updates it s better to quit iTunes before requesting a new synchronization The following information is not synchronized from iTunes Tracks not readable outside of iTunes DRM protected files usually ending with m4p extension the tracks on the cloud and coming from Home Sharing libraries Non musical tracks e g video books Criteria of Smart Playlists only the tracks are imported for these The following information is not synchronized to iTunes Advanced metadata not handled by iTunes e g soloist conductor period Play count and last played date Playlists single way only imported from iTunes any changes done to these playlists impo
46. requencies are mapped to different frequencies and mixed into the output Use higher values for better quality and use lower values to minimize CPU load Pre ringing all lowpass filters are characterized by the amount of ringing they introduce into their output The steeper the filter the greater the amount of ringing There are two general types of ringing pre ringing and post ringing Pre ringing will smear transients earlier in time while post ringing will smear transients later in time This control allows users to select pre ringing post ringing or anywhere in between A value of 1 0 produces a linear phase filter with equal pre and post ringing A value of 0 0 produces a minimum phase filter which offers no pre ringing but has non linear phase distortion which can be objectionable Setting intermediate values allows a continuous tradeoff between pre ringing and post ringing and allows users to linearize phase in the pass band as much as possible Forced Upsampling This gives the possibility to select to force upsampling or not to Power of 2 of the track native sample rate e g the highest available on the audio device of 88 2 176 4 or 352 8kHz for a track natively at 44 1kHz Maximum sample rate of the audio device Twice the track native sample rate if possible on the audio device Specific sample rate for each track native one selection done by clicking on Edit custom settings Audio Signal Polarity These options give
47. rted from iTunes in Audirvana Plus is erased upon the subsequent synchronization In addition with this method you need to ensure all your music files folders are accessible mounted before launching the synchronization Tracks whose file is not accessible during the synchronization will not be imported iTunes 12 warning iTunes 12 is no more generating by default the XML file that contains its database information To get it generated you need to enable the option in the Advanced page of iTunes preferences as follows Keep iTunes Media folder organized Places files into album and artist folders and names the files based on the disc number track number and the song title Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library Share iTunes Library XML with other applications 40 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual iTunes Only for legacy iTunes integrated mode e Audirvana Preferences Ug o Ss Wa 7 General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer iTunes General Optimization Deactivate completely iTunes own playback Note this option should be enabled for playing proxy files Sound Quality optimizations at the expense of convenience functions Deactivate volume control by iTunes Deactivate play position control by iTunes Note that changes will be effective only upon next playback start For best sound quality Audirvana Plus can completely deactivate sound playback by iTunes Note that this
48. ry contains the tracks coming from the audio files in the selected folders and or in the iTunes database There are two ways to do this import 1 By adding the folders to sync with Audirvana Plus This is the recommended method as any folder content update will then be automatically pushed to Audirvana Plus except for the network volumes Adding new files inside these folders will make their tracks automatically appear in Audirvana Plus Under Select the folders to add to the library click on button at the bottom left of the list to add a new folder to synchronize This will raise the folders selection window where you ll select one or more folders to add to the list You can force a synchronization by clicking on the Sync button located on the row of the folder to synchronize To delete a folder from the synchronization list and remove all its tracks from Audirvana Plus library select it and press the button 2 The other method is to synchronize with iTunes by importing iTunes library f your iTunes library is not located in the default location you can select a new location to look into by clicking on the Select button This will raise a window where you ll select the iTunes Music Library xml file of the iTunes library This is this file Audirvana Plus will read to import the iTunes database Click on Sync to initiate the synchronization This process is made in the following steps 1 import update the t
49. ter having selected the audio device in the list left of the main window click on Configure Speakers to raise the speakers selection popup There you can set the channel mapping for the multichannel configuration or Stereo if you have selected the Use as stereo only setting Note that restarting Audirvana Plus is needed after any change made in the channels configuration in AudioMidi Setup 32 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Audio Filters Settings a e Audirvana Preferences g U Li a General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer Library Sample Rate Conversion Converter iZotope 64 bit SRC Quality Fastest Best Advanced parameters Steepness 31 dB Filter max length 500 000 Samples Cutoff freq 1 00 x Nyquist Anti aliasing s 200 0 Pre ringing 0 78 Min Phase Linear Forced Upsampling None Power of 2 oversampling only 2x 4x Maximum sample rate upsampling Oversampling 2x only Custom Edit custom settings Some CPUs may not be able to perform sample rate conversion at best quality settings fast enough for realtime playback This could result in pauses in playback Note that changes will be effective only upon next playback start Audio Signal Polarity Invert globally Invert for tracks with INVERTPOLARITY comment Sample Rate Conversion Sample Rate Conversion happens when The audio device does not handle the audio track sample r
50. tion rules moving the harmonic quantization distortion away from overtones of audible frequencies This option doesn t create any random dithering noise floor Instead it works more like truncation but with better tonal quality in the resulting signal This option is applicable only in the modes without dithering noise and without aggressive noise shaping You can find detailed explanation on MBIT and its parameters in this paper http www izotope com products audio ozone OzoneDitheringGuide pdf Max volume level You may want to limit the maximum volume level set when turning the volume knob to Use this setting for this purpose 36 Audirvana Plus 2 2 User Manual Audio Units e amp Audirvana Preferences f e EN m my General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer Library AudioUnits Use AudioUnits effects Apple AUGraphicEQ Configure No Effect No Effect No Effect Realtime AudioUnits control and setup Up to four Audio Units filters can be used to tune apply effects to the sound to modify the response for applications like system room active correction Select Use AudioUnits effects to enable the Audio Units plugins support Then select in the drop down lists the Audio Units you want to use Audirvana Preferences EC D NE m Im General Audio System Audio Filters Audio Volume AudioUnits SysOptimizer Library Configuration for AudioUnit 1 Press Apply to save settings Graphic Equalizer 200
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