Pro Plus with Audirvana

[JakeMasterFlash]

Any thoughts on what upsample settings on Audirvana sound good ? I am not really hearing any difference between SoX and R8Brain.

 

[EddNog]

Any thoughts on what upsample settings on Audirvana sound good ? I am not really hearing any difference between SoX and R8Brain.

I use Audirvana to stream to the WiiM Ultra over UPnP and do not really notice a significant difference between upsampling and fixed sampling. I have a portion of my music collection in DSD and I have Audirvana convert that to PCM before sending to the WiiM and even with that, changing sample rate didn't particularly have a huge effect.

Pretty sure you'll get a significantly greater, "return on investment," by fine-tuning speaker placement and after that doing proper room correction (remember, boys & girls--limit that room correction to 300Hz and down!) than you will any miniscule potential benefit from upsampling.

-Ed

 

[JakeMasterFlash]

Ed thanks for your response, I’ll keep playing around with the SRC . My HiRez files w/o SRC sound amazing. Playing back over a very simple 3watt SET and non Xover speakers.

 

[soundklaus]

I would like to join in here with a question...
First of all: this field is still relatively new territory for me.
After purchasing the Wiim Pro Plus, I'm wondering to what extent I can/must adapt my configuration? The Wiim is connected to a Cambridge Audio Azur 851 amplifier, which in turn drives my old Mission 753 speakers.
I have an extensive audio collection on a Plex server and a Tidal account. Both can be played easily via the Wiim Home app integration. I have now come across the Audirvana programme. I don't think I've fully understood what advantages Audirvana would have over my current configuration?

 

[QuarryHunslet]

I would like to join in here with a question...
First of all: this field is still relatively new territory for me.
After purchasing the Wiim Pro Plus, I'm wondering to what extent I can/must adapt my configuration? The Wiim is connected to a Cambridge Audio Azur 851 amplifier, which in turn drives my old Mission 753 speakers.
I have an extensive audio collection on a Plex server and a Tidal account. Both can be played easily via the Wiim Home app integration. I have now come across the Audirvana programme. I don't think I've fully understood what advantages Audirvana would have over my current configuration?

It probably wouldn't have any advantage if you are happy with your current configuration.

 

[EddNog]

I would like to join in here with a question...
First of all: this field is still relatively new territory for me.
After purchasing the Wiim Pro Plus, I'm wondering to what extent I can/must adapt my configuration? The Wiim is connected to a Cambridge Audio Azur 851 amplifier, which in turn drives my old Mission 753 speakers.
I have an extensive audio collection on a Plex server and a Tidal account. Both can be played easily via the Wiim Home app integration. I have now come across the Audirvana programme. I don't think I've fully understood what advantages Audirvana would have over my current configuration?

It’s more of an, “audiophile,” thing. It would not provide a ton of benefit for many people. If you’re not shooting for that last (perceived) 0.5%, don’t bother.

-Ed