If enabled, it will give visual confirmation of the played-back sample rate and confirm whether you play from disc or memory buffer. The upper bar with the ticker-tape title, metering, dynamic range indicator and such can be turned off have only selected items show or it can be docked in a different location. It thus does not play the same track simultaneously in iTunes to allow instant toggles back and forth as does Amarra.Īs the opening screen capture of my iMac shows, Pure Music adds itself to the iTunes display on the left edge. Pure Music embeds itself deeper in the host's OS. Gapless tracks in buffer mode play back truly gapless.Īlso, PureMusic does not operate iTunes in 'ghost mode', i.e. When you enable hybrid memory play in Pure Music Preferences-> Music Server Settings-> Basic, memory play begins to stream your selected album or playlist almost immediately whilst the buffer gets fully loaded. But a day after I installed Channel D's rather more affordable and altogether nicer interface and experienced its superior memory play feature, I permanently removed Amarra from my OSX dock. Then I upgraded to Amarra 2.1 still feeling strangely noncommittal. I bought Amarra 2 and ran with it for six indecisive months. Have you played fence sitter on Pure Music as a sonic upgrade to iTunes and an automatic sample-rate switcher for McIntosh machines? If so, the following screen captures might get you off-the fence-by seeing exactly what the graphic user interface looks like and how the main features are accessed. IMac with Pure Music in memory play mode of Jamshied Sharifi's One album, concurrent iPod update sync in background The latter is thus positioned in the middle of this open floor plan without the usual nearby back wall. The listening space opens into the second storey via a staircase and the kitchen/dining room are behind the main listening chair. Room size: 5m x 11.5m W x D, 2.6m ceiling with exposed wooden cross beams every 60cm, plaster over brick walls, suspended wood floor with Tatami-type throw rugs. Sundry accessories: Extensive use of Acoustic System Resonators, noise filters and phase inverters, Advanced Acoustics Orbis Wall & Corner units Powerline conditioning: 1 x Walker Audio Velocitor S, 1 x Furutech RTP-6 Stands: 2 x ASI HeartSong 3-tier, 2 x ASI HeartSong amp stand Headphone amps: Trafomatic Audio Head One Woo Audio Model 5 Burson Audio HA-160 Meier Audio Corda ConcertoĬables: Complete loom of ASI Liveline, Furutech GT2 and WireWorld Starlight 5² USB A-to-mini-B cables, LaCie and Entreq Firewire 800 cables, Black Cat Cable Veloce S/PDIF cable Headphones: ALO Audio recabled Audez'e LCD-2, Sennheiser HD800, beyerdynamic T1 and AKG K-702 stock audio-technica W5000 stock Grado PS-1000 HifiMan HE5LE with optional silver wiring and grill mod Speakers: ASI Tango R, Zu Essence, Boenicke SLS Preamp/Integrated: Esoteric C-03 (transistor), Bent Audio Tap-X (AVC passive), ModWright DM 36.5 (tube), ModWright LS100Īmplifier: FirstWatt F5 & J2, ModWright KWA-100 SE, Trafomatic Audio Kaivalya, Octave Audio MRE-130 with SSB, Yamamoto A-09S Source: Ancient Audio Lektor Prime, Raysonic Audio CD228, Apple iMac 1TB with AIFF files up to 24/192, Weiss DAC2, iPod Classic 160GB, Sieben Technology dock, Onkyo ND-S1 digital-direct iPod dock (x 2), Burson Audio HA160D as DAC
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