Is Audirvana good but buggy?

[ajuvignesh]

As per my logical understanding and preference, going wireless using UPnP would be better than a physical connection between a computer/mobile device and the rest of the chain.

I too think the same. hmmm

 

[bobbyndd]

Hi all,

I am using Qobuz to stream music. I use Upnp to stream from my phone to my minidsp shd studio.
Initially, I used volumio that is bundled with the device. It was slow and not nice to use. Then I bought the paid version of mconnect. It was good but sluggish too.
Now I am introduced with Jplay and started using the trial version and I was throughly impressed. As the trial ended, I started the trial of Audirvana and currently I am still in the trial version.

I run audirvana in my Macbook pro and control it using the audirvana official remote on my ios device. The streaming was through upnp and I think, it sounded better than anything I tried before. But, as far as the interface go, Jplay is miles better.

The problem started today. Audirvana started to slow down. The startup time exceeds 3 minutes on my mac. Also, upnp isn't that smooth anymore. I wanted to try USB connection to my minidsp and it wasn't that great either. so many dropouts, lag and what not. It slowed down my computer too.
is there any audirvana users here? is the software really buggy or is it just me and my computer the issue? how good is a windows version of audirvana running in nuc? I can add a DDC later sometime for even better quality.
is there any third party control app for audirvana?

Sorry for so many questions.

HQplayer is out of question as my minidsp doesn't support anything above 192 khz.
Roon! I liked to try it and tried to subscribe to it. But all my credit cards failed because of RBI restrictions. I don't want to pay the full amount as to me it is damn expensive.

I used Audirvana twice on Windows, yes the sound quality is better( for me it sounded better than Roon) but the software is buggy. I faced issues like the remote app not detecting the software, issues while playing DSD files, program not closing and I had to force quit ( End from task manager on windows) etc. I was streaming from local hard drive to my yamaha via upnp as well as from Tidal. Second time I was really hoping to see some improvements but it was a disappointment.

 

[ajuvignesh]

I used Audirvana twice on Windows, yes the sound quality is better( for me it sounded better than Roon) but the software is buggy. I faced issues like the remote app not detecting the software, issues while playing DSD files, program not closing and I had to force quit ( End from task manager on windows) etc. I was streaming from local hard drive to my yamaha via upnp as well as from Tidal. Second time I was really hoping to see some improvements but it was a disappointment.

same here. when was the last time you used it? I was also facing all the issues you mentioned.