![]() ![]() All hosted on a Carrier board which hosts a custom version of VIM3L designed to maximize the efficacy of ground planes and several filtering stages USB out (dedicated to DAC) with a dedicated HUB with high precision external clock and dedicated power filtering S/PDIF and AES/EBU with galvanic isolation and dedicated power filtering Long story short, my take is: Rivo is a ready-to-play product, with its primary purpose of delivering the highest quality via its digital outputs, meant to be used by anyone independently of their IT skills. Our goal, when we develop and release an audio product is to offer a level of sound quality much higher than a PI, and ready to play (no tinkering needed). IMHO comparing Rivo (or any other ready-to-use product) with Raspberry PI has many caveats, and is usually not a fair exercise. First, there's not much chatter about it since the official launch and release (with all bells and whistles) is due in September, and we just made a closed sale to our community and aficionados. I just came in to provide a few clarifications, hoping that they are useful. I’m as Amir would say “an early adopter”! FWIW, I’m not interested in Bluesound Node or Roon, just sayin…TIA!! They have had a release of some cosmetically flawed units at a €200 discount which is enticing but there is absolutely zero chatter about this thing, yet I am undeterred, just seems like a fit for me.Īny insight or experience with Volumio would be appreciated. It’s almost a grand and I have zero experience with Volumio so there’s a little hesitation, fear of the unknown, lol. I do have the Volumio remote on my iPad but it’s lacking features I normally have connected directly to Tidal for instance, aaaand Tidal has no remote, so there’s that. I’m intrigued by the new Volumio Rivo, a standalone streamer that also allows me to use my current DAC and has an hdmi output and UI I can control with my TV remote, providing more convenience and ease of operation. IMHO, if you already have 3.5 lifetime purchased and are happy with it, subscribing for studio will not provide with any added benefits.I’m currently streaming from my MacBook Pro via Audirvana usb to my Topping D90SE and while it sounds great Audirvana leaves me wanting more. Once you get past the sleek UI, it somehow feels like old candy wrapped in new paper. Maybe manually adding the URL with Metadata will fix it partly but album cover still looks doubtful.ĥ. Default RadioParadise has no Metadata or album cover support. As of date only app available for download load is the old one which doesn't connect with Studio.Ĥ. Audirvana website mentions a new? mobile app. Still no auto tagging, album cover search etc.ģ. It is a beta release without the beta tag.Ģ. Feature which checks music files (local only) for encoding quality (did I get it right?).ġ. Audio setting is laid out in a easy to use interfaceĤ. Now being a subscription model, they should have done better! Or do they expect customers to subscribe and then wait for problems to get fixed? Here are my observations:Ģ. I installed Audirvana Studio and it came out as a software which was released in a hurry. If that doesn't happen then the company will become a shell of it's former operation. It may take a while to build back Audirvana customer satisfaction. It's pretty evident the guys at Audirvana did not think through the rejection they are receiving or place any real value on existing customers. ![]() It seemed to cause the moderator to grimace in pain a few times. During the webcast announcement for Audirvana studio there was a lot of negative comments from existing users. The company is taking a big risk with existing customer satisfaction and giving Roon a lot of opportunity. The product change might kill off most of the existing Audirvana users as it's obvious they don't want to go down the subscription route. It's a nice feature but certainly not worth $70 a year over my 3.5 version. My 3.5 version only allows playlists of steaming media OR a separate playlist for local ripped CD's. Audirvana Studio adds the ability to create playlists that combine ripped CD's as well as Qobuz/Tidal streams.
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