KR wrote in the January 2018 Stereophile: "If your setup is working to your satisfaction, there's no need for you to download every new build." Really. JRiver Media Center: $59.98 (single platform) $79.98 (multi-platform) He found that "Full Bass Optimisation resulted in much better integration of the subs with each other and with the main speakersto the point where the subs disappeared but the main speakers seemed to have prodigious low-frequency extension and control." (Vol.37 No.5, Vol.44 No.10 WWW) KR continued his recommendation for the app, writing that with Dirac "I hear no loss of transparency rather, I hear more transparency due to the removal of distracting artifacts." Live 3 also includes Dirac Live Bass Control, which KR tried in beta form. JRiver, Audirvana Studio, Amarra, and most DAWs support it as a plug-in. In PCs (Windows 10 and above) and Macs, it can be installed as a plug-in or as a regular application. The Dirac Live Processor then applies the filter corrections to music as it plays. Live 3 allows the user to measure the system's in-room response, then generates the necessary correction filters. But its acoustic transformation capabilities are well beyond what is built into most processors, he wrote. Sound quality, of course, is dependent on the hardware in the system, wrote KR, about the original Dirac Live, an app that runs without external processors on Macs or PCs. "While the user interface is not as intuitive as I would like, the versatility on offer is extraordinary." (Vol.32 No.3 Ver.3.0, Vol.33 No.8 Ver.5, Vol.43 No.11 WWW)ĭirac Live 3 room-correction software: $349 stereo license, $499 multichannel license ★ (Robinson recommends the Lynx HiLo, an MF fave, for that reason.) "To say that I was impressed with the quality afforded needle drops by Pure Vinyl would be an understatement," concluded JA. (Ver.5 was not yet compatible with macOS 15/Catalina in the fall of 2020.) Channel D's Rob Robinson strongly advises recording at 192kHz"Pure Vinyl was designed and optimized with that sample rate in mind (back in 2003!)" he told JAbut for monitoring the recording in real time, the playback D/A converter must be sample-synchronous with the A/D converter. JA was impressed by Version 5's RIAA de-emphasis with LPs that had been ripped with the Channel D Seta L phono preamp's Flat outputs. "Pure Vinyl will change the musical lives of collectors with large collections of pre-1954 discs," said MF. Version 3.0 and later includes Channel D's Pure Music front-end program for iTunes. Compared to the original LPs, the digitized versions lacked a touch of body but sounded "very analog-like." Compatible only with Apple Macintosh computers. ![]() CDs made with Pure Vinyl sounded "much better" than those made with the Alesis Masterlink, said MF. ![]() ![]() Record mode allows the user to apply over 50 EQ curves or create custom EQ settings Editor mode allows the user to insert track breaks or remove surface noise. Used with a microphone preamp or non-RIAA phono preamp, Channel D's Pure Vinyl digitizes vinyl LPs at 24-bit/192kHz resolution and applies the RIAA or other EQ curves in the digital domain, where there's no interchannel phase shift, capacitor distortion, additional noise, or component variability. (Vol.33 No.8, Vol.34 Nos.7 & 9 WWW)Ĭhannel D Pure Vinyl LP ripping software: $379 ★ A free, 15-day trial version can be downloaded from Included with Channel D's Pure Vinyl Version 3.0. Using Pure Music in its Memory Play and "Hog Mode" settings for optimal sound quality resulted in a wider soundstage and greater sense of ease, said JA. Compared with the less expensive Decibel, however, Pure Music lacked some openness and clarity, decided AD. Going from iTunes to Pure Music, the sonic improvement was modest but worthwhile, with cleaner trebles and improved pitch certainty. Like those programs, Pure Music (Mac only) offers memory play, automatic sampling-rate changes, and full compatibility with native FLAC files and in its latest version, DSD files. Pure Music (Mac only) can play sampling rates of up to twice the 192kHz limit of Amarra and Decibel.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |