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Think of Amarra For Tidal as Amarra SQ skinned with an interface that can phone home to Tidal via its API also along for the ride comes SQ/+’s EQ panel and audio processing engine. Rather than run two applications, routing the Tidal’s audio output via SQ+ and out to the DAC, Amarra For Tidal dispenses with the Tidal application altogether. If you’re a Tidal user, there’s a fresh option: Amarra For Tidal (US$40). What to do if your SQ+ installation brings with a case of the crackles? Abandon ship? Not quite. That something was polished for the consumer space and Amarra has subsequently become one of the better-known audiophile-centric music players for Macintosh.

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With roots in the pro audio space, Reichbach coded the very first version of Amarra during one Christmas holiday break just so that he had something he “could hit play on at home”. In 2002, he purchased their pro-audio arm, Sonic Studio. Reichbach started with Sonic Solutions back in the late 1980s. In this case, that’s Jon Reichbach of Sonic Studio. Distortion that’s probably attributable to a lower spec-d CPU’s inability to keep up with demand for its clock cycles: two CPU-intensive apps vying for attention amidst a sea of interrupt requests doesn’t always play out as the audio software engineer intended. This wishful thinking stems not only from the end user’s preference for SQ/+’s narrower headstaging and more forward midrange but also from the possibility that crackling distortion might present. The resulting sound is different, hopefully better. The theory is simple enough: Sonic Studio’s audio engine is less CPU intensive than that of say iTunes or Spotify and it bypasses Apple’s Core Audio mixer – it’s bit perfect. Installing Amarra SQ or SQ+ on OS X creates a virtual sound output device in the System Preferences pane to which audio from any application can be sent and – fingers crossed – improved. If you happen to be at SXSW in Austin, check out: to hear more about the future of streaming audio and hear a live concert, streamed from London and get an idea of what's to come with Amarra Play.This is a hijack. More information will be available later this week.

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We will be coming out with another update shortly that supports Amarra Play - our iOS- based app that will allow for streaming to your mobile device or downloading to your mobile device for offline use from your local library, upsampling to 96k and MQA playback included. Once enabled, remember to select tracks from iTunes and Amarra will play them back.

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We recommend clearing your library and re-scanning to take full advantage of the update.įor those that use iTunes, click on the icon on the far left of the transport window to enable iTunes mode. That said, we've continued to make improvements and have a new build for the Mac you are all welcome to test out. Every tweak on a computer can have an impact on the sound, it's just not as simple as 'bits is bits'.

We understand it has been a challenge using Amarra Luxe and we are sorry for any inconvenience, It truly is a delicate balance to provide features and still maintain exceptional sound quality.

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