ceroxol
Hi-Fi freak
Nå er det vel nesten på tide med en vennetråd for Channel D's Pure Music... ;D
Har tidligere startet en tråd om emnet på Datahjørnet, se her.
Hos meg er løftet i lydkvalitet enormt og kan sammenliknes med oppgraderinger jeg tidligere har betalt adskillige titusner for - her får du det for $129. No brainer? Definitivt!
Test i Positive Feedback:
Test i Stereophile:
Test i Fidelity #47:
Bob Katz:
Jeg anbefaler alle som benytter Mac+iTunes å teste programmet, hvilket er såre enkelt da en kan teste programmet gratis i 15 dager.
Har tidligere startet en tråd om emnet på Datahjørnet, se her.
Hos meg er løftet i lydkvalitet enormt og kan sammenliknes med oppgraderinger jeg tidligere har betalt adskillige titusner for - her får du det for $129. No brainer? Definitivt!
Test i Positive Feedback:
So how about the sound? I can say that I prefer to run Pure Music 100% of the time now.
What's interesting here is that I seem to get more engaged when I play it back with Pure Music.
I highly recommend this application, it's changed the way I hear the music and hasn't killed the wallet whatsoever. What do you have to lose? I can say though that once you experience what it offers, there's no going back!
Test i Stereophile:
Pure Music includes high-quality sample-rate up-conversion in real time to as high as 24-bit/192-kHz, as well as a whole host of additional features, including a properly dithered volume control and the ability to play files from memory rather than hard drive. Pure Music works seamlessly, and definitely improves sound quality over iTunes alone.
-Michael Fremer, Stereophile
I found Pure Music's Memory playback consistently gave better sound quality, using a USB connection to a dCS uClock and Puccini D/A processor, than playing from hard drive. (This might be because my iTunes library is stored on an external Fire Wire-conenected drive.) There is a slight delay after you press "Play" while the file is being read into RAM, then a small message beneath the meters at the top of the Pure Music window indicates that the file is being played from the RAM. There is also a Hybrid Memory Play mode, where Pure Music commences playback while simultaneously loading each track into memory. As it doesn't have to wait for the track to be completely loaded into RAM, this gives gap-less operation, but with the sonic benefit of Memory Playback. For $129, Pure Music is a bargain.
-John Atkinson, Stereophile
Test i Fidelity #47:
Den får hele lydbilledet til at virke lidt mere luftigt og high-end, blødt og detaljeret. Og uden at det bliver upræcist, nærmere tværtimod.
Bob Katz:
"When playing 16/44 sources, Pure Music sounds as good to me as the best CD transport anyone can dig up - as long as I'm using a high-quality jitter-immune D/A converter. But I can play my 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz and 192 kHz/24 bit masters and then Pure Music beats any CD source. I love being able to play a collection of my masters using the friendly iTunes interface, but with Pure Music bypassing any sound processing that iTunes performs. Throw in a calibrated, dithered volume control marked in decibels, and I'm in heaven. Mechanically, the Mac Mini is quieter than some CD players!"
- Bob Katz, Mastering Engineer, Digital Domain, Orlando, FL; Formerly Recording Engineer and Technical Director of audiophile label Chesky Records
Jeg anbefaler alle som benytter Mac+iTunes å teste programmet, hvilket er såre enkelt da en kan teste programmet gratis i 15 dager.