Or, rather, it will allow you to do that, provided you then close and reopen iTunes after each and every change made in AudioMIDI.
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AudioMIDI, a native Mac OS utility, does that. But iTunes will not actually change the Mac’s actual output resolution from whatever it happened to be to what your file actually is. You see, iTunes does support playback of high-resolution audio files. The “killer ap” for Amarra is, and has always been, #2: Automatic Sample Rate Adjustment. (The “full version”, by the way, includes support for up to 192kHz sampling and the ability to pull playlists without using iTunes at all. I’m not going to go into any details on this because I’ve also heard via rumor and innuendo that Amarra Mini actually isn’t doing any of that, but that’s another topic. According to The Inner Elite, Amarra is supposed to bypass certain portions of the Mac OS that render playback suboptimal. First, in case you didn’t already know, Amarra is a playback engine. Well, before we get there, let me tell you what your purchase these days is supposed to get you. I really, truly could not hear any difference between Amarra and iTunes. Now, if I were reading this, my first thought would be: WTF could be worth almost $300 (or $700!)? And answering that would be hard, because I honestly almost sent this product back to Sanjay at least 50 times during that first month. In the year since I made my purchase, Sonic Studios has lowered the regular price on Mini to $295, and also lowered the “full version” to $695.
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By lucking out, I managed to get another $100 off due to a holiday promo, so I soon had a $295 copy of Amarra Mini on my desk, along with the USB key-fob from iLok with my license on it.
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While I was debating if it was even possible that a software package even could make half of the claims made on it’s behalf even audible, the price dropped to $995 - and Sonic Studios then announced a “Mini” version, with a much more affordably price of $395. At the time, it retailed (at that time) for $1500 a pop. Now, I should mention at this point that Amarra is not cheap and it’s a software package. I called up Sanjay over at Ciamara in NY and ordered me up a copy. I was promised better sound staging, truer fidelity, deeper bass response, a less harsh treble, a sexier tube-like mid-range, lower jitter, and a huge return on my taxes that year. As one of the sad clueless, I was promised all manner of goodness should i dare explore the wonders. And by ‘gold standard’, I mean ‘brick that computer audiophiles use to bludgeon the unenlightened’. What was preferred, almost universally, was a little program called Amarra, from Sonic Studios.Īmarra, which just released v2.1 this week, has been the “gold standard”. Hanging out there, I noticed right away that a great many folks there loved Apple hardware (the computers, anyway) but hated Apple software. Then, this year, I upgraded both my DAC and my interface for it after spending just a bit too long on the Computer Audiophile forums. First, through a sweet PS Audio D元 DAC that I had modded by Cullen Circuits. Good!Īnyway, I’ve been fiddling with computer audio -based playback for some number of years. 😉 I have not always been a fan, though, but I think it was OS X that did it for me. I guess you could say that I just got sick of doing Windows.
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I suppose that I should know as I have three on my desk, another in the living room - and there’s an Apple TV in there, too.
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