Pure Vinyl/Amarra

Gary, I am glad you are enjoying PV. Is its effect most noticeable on hi rez or does redbook benefit as well? I am a steamer (WiFi) and had always thought that the computer player itself (Itunes, etc) did not have an effect. Steve Nugent at Empirical Audio told me otherwise. I will be investigating these things further.

PV makes iTunes sound thin/weak and cheap sounding.

25% improvement over iTunes.

Gary, since I am a WiFi man, PV requires Airfoil (hijacks airtunes) to play via my modded Airport Express. Apple has some encryption at the AE interface that the channel D guys have not worked around yet (in the works). Amarra piggybacks some of the Apple code and thus does not need Airfoil. Anyway, when I tried Airfoil with PV it sounded constricted. I may be missing something with AF and will contact them....

To Liz, and others who agree with her: The OP asked for "any thoughts on the two". (Pure Vinyl vs Amarra). If someone reading that had no clue whatsoever what Pure Vinyl or Amarra were, then I guess they wouldn't have any thoughts on the two.

Glory's question was aimed at people with experience listening to both. Don't attack Glory because you don't know what the question means. Sit back, read the responses that follow and maybe you will learn something.