I had a Mac mini with either pure music/amarra/pure music/and then audirvana and it sounded very good. I then did some auditioning of music servers like aurender and auralic and ended up with the auralic aries music server. The Aries sounds so much better. I kept my Mac mini, installed 15 TB of disk storage and created a OS X server running minimserver that is used to rip my music to which the auralic links up too. I also use either the auralic DS Lightning app on my iPad to control the Aries or I sometimes use the Lumin app, its nice to have a choice.
EQ with JRiver/Pure Music vs Aurender/Dedicated servers
After a 7 year hiatus on HiFi purchases, I finally am upgrading with computer audio. Through Audiogon I bought a Lampizator 4 to use with my macbook, and the combo sounds better than my older Meridian CD player. Much better. I am thrilled.
One of the things i love about using my Mac is Pure Music and JRiver's plugins for tone equalization and other acoustic/room effects. I always told "Hi End" was never supposed to used graphic equalizers/tone controls. But I do enjoy tweaking the sound, boosting the lows and highs to taste.
It is clear that the best way to do computer audio is to us a dedicated server, such as Aurender.
However, in considering a dedicated server such a Aurender I understand there is no way to adjust bass and treble. I understand the sonic improvements to be expected with a dedicated unit, but is there any way to get my EQ back with an Aurender or other such server?
Thanks for any opinions/advice.
One of the things i love about using my Mac is Pure Music and JRiver's plugins for tone equalization and other acoustic/room effects. I always told "Hi End" was never supposed to used graphic equalizers/tone controls. But I do enjoy tweaking the sound, boosting the lows and highs to taste.
It is clear that the best way to do computer audio is to us a dedicated server, such as Aurender.
However, in considering a dedicated server such a Aurender I understand there is no way to adjust bass and treble. I understand the sonic improvements to be expected with a dedicated unit, but is there any way to get my EQ back with an Aurender or other such server?
Thanks for any opinions/advice.