Audirvana high sierra3/18/2023 ![]() ![]() I'm guessing there is a fat chance thats now going to be patched/solved for 3.5 on Big Sur, given its EOL status and Audirvana's now critical rush to placate their subscription model subscribers in stabilizing their new Studio product offering. ![]() No amount of tinkering with settings has fixed this, I can no longer reliably stream Qobuz over UPnP using Audirvana. Almost immediately I descended into the bursts of static white noise that so many before me had been reporting. Then this morning, I opened up Audirvana 3.5 for some Sunday morning Qobuz listening. All of the applications I opened and used yesterday worked perfectly, and even seemed a bit snappier in execution, perhaps a bunch of old temp files, plists, or other garbage that was associated with Catalina were purged or something, but the MacBook seems to be running just a bit smoother and faster than before. Everything seems to have gone flawlessly, which you'd expect being one year tardy on updating, all kinks and bugs should now be long ago solved. So nearly one year after Big Sur's initial rollout in late June 2020, I updated my MacBook air to it yesterday. There were no remaining macOS 11 Big Sur issues, problems, or complaints I was aware of that had me in a holding pattern. That MacBook had been running macOS 10.15 Catalina for no particular reason other than laziness, as the time frame that I normally wait to update macOS to a new version was stretched far longer than usual, due really to nothing other than procrastination. I had a perfectly good working version of Audirvana 3.5.46 on my MacBook which I used to stream Qobuz right up until yesterday. My own situation is different but seemingly related. I wish them luck and I've always felt Damien is a good guy and a great developer, but I think I'm out with v3.5 unless something additional comes to light here that re-interests me.Ĭlick to expand.It could go very wrong for sure.Īs of this writing now over one month later, there are still a ton of bugs in Studio yet to be squashed, still no Remote app compatibility (though thats said to finally be coming "next week") and a vocal contingent of angry Audirvana users posting negative things on their forum, because their trial subscription to Studio is now about to expire and Audirvana are stubbornly ignoring all requests to extend those trials until such time as a working version of Studio can actually be properly evaluated by end users. ![]() for the date, and this was a botch job, though perhaps in that famous and quintessentially French way, they don't actually give a shit what Americans might think. Add in they picked Mother's Day Sunday in the U.S. Whoever is in charge of marketing and promotion at Audirvana botched this one for sure, as mentioned, this was an unfortunate choice of format/medium to make such an announcement, and I had seen just a few days prior on the Audirvana forum an overwhelmingly negative reaction to Facebook in general, especially from those in the EU who clearly don't trust Facebook in any way on the level of privacy. On the negative side, I missed the pricing, if indeed they actually announced it, but I don't think they did as one of the questions was specific to pricing in Canada and they said they did not know for sure, so I'm guessing no official pricing yet exists though I simply wasn't able to sit through every second of it. Their English is a million times better than my French, so I'll applaud them for their courage. I say perhaps because it just wasn't entirely clear to me, though I will certainly give credit to those guys in that English is not their primary language, it takes guts to sit there and take questions live in something other than your native tongue. Soon enough I'm sure they will formalize it but from what I could piece together Audirvana Studio looks to be a refreshed UI, with the addition of the long requested internet radio, and a somewhat vague promise of additional sound quality improvements in the area of transparency, and bass response, with that perhaps specific or optimized for the new M1-based Macs, and also Kernel Streaming mode on Windows 10. I just sat through most of the YouTube version of this livestream, somewhat painful at times but I think I've got the gist of what's on offer. ![]()
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