Sonic Studio also released the Amarra sQ equaliser app for streaming music. Perhaps this could be why I couldn’t hear the difference between the DSD and CD versions of the same music piece played by the same soloist. I’m in my fifties with my ears never having been exposed to rock festival sound levels, but when I was about 27, I accidentally fired a pistol shot in a small confined room with no ear protection. I tested this with a DSD file of which I also happen to have a CD version. To that effect, Amarra 3 will first convert the files internally to PCM and set your DAC to its highest supported sample rate setting at multiple of 44.1 kHz. This means you can play stereo DSD files regardless of whether your DAC can handle them. With the latter, Amarra 3 supports 64/128 DSF formats while a DSD Converter is not required to play DSD. Unfortunately, Sennheiser nor Beyer Dynamic are on the list.Īmarra 3 supports WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, MP3 and DSD playback. Sound quality wise, I found Amarra 3 to even beat Audirvana Plus, which is in my opinion the second-best audio player for the Mac.Īmarra 3 includes Sonic Studio’s parametric Equaliser with presets optimised for high-quality headphone manufacturers such Audeze, KEF, Grado, Nuforce and more. If Amarra 2 was painting a violin solo with rather broad strokes, Amarra 3 would be painting it with a fine Kolinsky sable hair brush. By lack of a better way of describing it, I would compare it to an oil painting.
It has a better looking interface and a music experience that sounds more detailed with even better dynamic quality (in a sense of the difference between silent and loud) than its predecessor.
Amarra 2 was a great music player, with exceptional music quality.
#AMARRA REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#
They are the same company that develops Sonic Studio SoundBlade and NoNoise for professional sound engineering and recording. Sonic Studio also released Amarra sQ, an equaliser specifically developed to enhance streaming music such as iTunes Radio or Spotify streams.Īmarra is developed by Sonic Studio.
#AMARRA REVIEW FULL#
I tested the full Amarra player, which allows you to play FLAC as well as DSD music files. Amarra is an audiophile music player for the Mac.
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