Audirvana is now a much cheaper option but don't you need a computer to use it? Unfortunately Roon increased their prices by about 40% last year, is is now $700 which is about £570. There are free trials of each, I would recommend giving both of them a whirl and see which works best for you. I did however find the Audirvana SQ better, but its instability and speed was a let down for me and no real multi-room stuff. For the £350 I paid, it was well worth it, but now with its ridiculous price increase, I probably would never have bought it nor got involved with it. Its constant NAS monitoring, metadata retrieval, streaming service integration, its just REALLY good.
#Hqplayer vs audirvana pro
I have different speaker boxes in various rooms (Naim MUSO's, Audio Pro C5/C10) and it lets me choose which speaker, or all or a combo to play music to through the central interface. I spent the dollar for ROON, because it just 'works', the interfacing is wonderful, and Roon Radio has helped me find some great new music. Plus the multi-room functionality is exceptional.
Roon is very pricey compared to Audirvana, but for me it works so well there was no going back. It allows for multi-room, multi-system control which I dont really need, so it is a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. It really is an excellent, well thought out offering with superb EQ facilities, the Roon live radio, it sounds excellent & is rock solid stable.
In my opinion, Roon is like a much better, more polished & slick version of Audirvana.
My Mac mini acts as a Roon endpoint so it was very easy to set up & my library was correctly restored.
#Hqplayer vs audirvana update
I say “pretty stable” only because there was a fairly big update a year or so ago & for reasons I never understood, it completely screwed up my library, splitting it into duplicate albums with only 3 or 4 tracks on each album.Īfter trying to resolve this, reverting to an earlier version etc without success, I trialled Roon. There’s also a reasonable data base/user forum on the computeraudiophile site.Īudirvana allows you to search & select Music, has “plug-ins” for EQ, decent graphics & the program is usually pretty stable. I used Audirvana to manage & access music for a good few years. I have my music on a Mac mini HD ( maybe about 1000 cd’s) & I use Tidal.