I hav followed all your suggestions from all your messages this afternoon. No luck.
Yes, I got the Hackingtool working. Yes, I tried copying over the ktext file to the other Library and restarting. I’ve tried everything you suggested. I’m going to give it one more shot just now - the whole process. Will let you know how it goes.
Hi. If the computer is a dedicated player, I am not sure what the advantage is in having Catalina and would be glad of a heads up. If there isn’t one then I suggest you get a 2011 or 2012 Mac Mini, install High Sierra and the latest version of Audirvana, do the easier .kext op and get back to enjoying music. I agree that direct mode is essential. Drew
So, yesterday I went to the dark side and purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro 7, core i7, 16GB RAM. Took me 15 mins to set it up. Another 15 minutes to get Audirvana installed on it, get the Samsung T5 SSD firmware installed, etc. And since then, Audirvana has been churning out beautiful music (about 13 hrs non stop now). No direct mode etc to deal with. I am using the WASAPI default setting btw. DSD files are sounding amazing. So far so good!
While the Surface Pro seems to be operating without glitches in comparison to my old MacBook, I just realized two things as I sat down for a PROPER listen. Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me is my test album - DSD mastered from original analog.
It wasn’t sounding as lush… something was missing… the tone of the piano and other acoustics… something was definitely missing…
all of a sudden, track after track, the soonstage seemed to have shifted to the Right!! I’m like, WTF! I went through all the settings in Audirvana and in Windows… couldn’t find anything where I could set or impact the output balance from Audirvana.
I then plugged back my MacBook, and all of a sudden life was back to normal … the luscious sound, the perfectly centered soundstage, etc etc!!!
I think I’m going to go the route of buying a 13” MacBook Pro, install El Capitan on it, get my Direct Mode, and then call it a day.
Looks like Mac wins in SQ. Returning the Windows machine tomorrow.
I have a PC running this Audirvana with no problems that you mentioned. Their are several guides (I have mention them in another post) but you should follow to minimize all the background processes that Windows 10 runs.
There’s no such thing as lush out of the Mac and not out of the PC in the way that you are referring to unless they’re interruptions with the signal getting out.
I wish I could remember what thread I wrote this in but it was in another one of these Mac versus PC versions, what should I use? But if you don’t want to look for my post, please Google improving sound quality on a PC for recording… or something like that.
By the way I run my audio server headless and without any moving parts to the system including system fans to minimize noise levels.
That’s another rabbit’s hole of endless pursuit of optimisations. Mac just works and sounds great even without direct mode. I use it like that and I’m happy with it.