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BitPerfect High-quality Audio Player for OSX By Bill Henderson / March 7, 2012 March 7, 2012 / News / Audio gear, Audio, Video, TV, iOS, MP3, Music / 5 Comments. ‎BitPerfect is a simple, easy to use, audiophile grade music player that works in conjunction with iTunes to deliver the highest possible sound quality. Localization included in Japanese, French, Dutch, Danish, and Russian only Requires OS X 10.8 or higher. Requires 64-Bit CPU. Batchinpaint 2 0 – batch image editor. Unobtrusive, minima. A simple BitPerfect player Topics. Bitperfect player flac mp3 mp4 m4a aac aplay bitperfect-player Resources. Microsoft outlook 15 6 – a new outlook for mac. Readme Releases 1. 2020-09-19 Latest Sep 29, 2020. A simple BitPerfect player. Player mp4 mp3 aac flac aplay m4a bitperfect bitperfect-player Updated Oct 1, 2020; C; Improve this page Add a.
My last and final project around the mele a2000: a bit perfect player with mpd and display.
Arm powered (Allwinner A10). Affinity designer beta 1 7 0 3.
Updated with a linear and regulated power supply.
Vr 360 camera pc software. quick and dirty !

Schematic:
Fully working.
Bitperfect Player Windows 10Ultra low power – switches to 60MHz on standby and 1Ghz on playback
External 12V Fortron PSU + Internal Audiophonics PSUS2 (for the mele only)
Automatic power on of the display via the ph20 of the mele + optocoupler Letex LA213 + 12V relay
Remote control with lirc, able to mechanize mpd via mpc
Bit perfect playback to my Micromega MyDac
Connected to my NAS via CIFS (seemless network reconnection)
Display the media quality, load, track informations via Conky and flap to the album picture every 30 seconds
On the front, power button of the mele, led connected to the mele ph10 (blinking slowly on standby), IR receiver
https://downlfile583.weebly.com/autoproxy-for-firefox.html. It runs ubuntu on nand with Xorg + conky.
The display turns off after 120 seconds of mpd inactivity.
The remote (lirc) manages play/stop/forward/volume etc…
The display used is connected to the composite video output and cost … bought at $18 on ebay.
The new linear power costs $30.
Total pure audiophile player cost ~ $160 ($40 of casing).
Bit Perfect

The rest of my setup:
Micromega MyDac
PreAmp: nuForce P8S
Crossover: dbTechnologies ASX 18 (with new Muse caps)
2 x Klein Hummel O300d
2 x RCF ayra 10 sub
Cables: rca from sommercable/choseal, usb from lyndi, xlr from viablue NF-S1 + yarbo
References:
MPD config
LIRC config
Audiophonics PSUS2
Ubuntu image
Kernel update
Composite monitor
Bit Perfect Music PlayerPrevious with the dirty psu (for the record):
Bit Perfect Software For Windows
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 Now equipped with a full license to the latest version of Audirvana I was in business to get seriously comparative. I put that reviewer hat back on and forget about this entire silliness of listening to music for pure selfish pleasure. Since I also happened to have purchased BitPerfect and Decibel over the past few years, I decided to invite those programs to the party as well.


 Let's start with BitPerfect. As its name implies, it ensures bit-perfect iTunes playback, bypassing a number of internal OSX processes especially the unwanted up/down-sampling that can plague iTunes. Of the four programs it is the only one to not offer memory playback (i.e. preload tracks to memory to avoid disk activity during playback). BitPerfect can be downloaded from the Apple app store for $9.99 (of note is the innovative marketing trick of $9.99 pricing to avoid the clearly over-the-top $10 price tag). It requires nothing more than double-clicking on the app to activate it. Its presence is betrayed only by a small icon on top of your screen. BitPerfect does not require any complicated setup (although some options exist, the defaults will give the best results). Once on, use iTunes as if BP was not even active. The app does its work quietly in the background. 

 Obviously the low price of BP is attractive for somebody not quite convinced yet of the value of advanced playback software. (Although BP was initially available for $5 and saw a significant price increase recently, it is still the cheapest option for MAC). Unfortunately BP's effects will be more noticed by what it does not do rather than by what it does. While BP does provide automatic sample rate switching depending on the format of the music file being played and slightly improves resolution with sharper transients likely due to improved jitter performance, it does nothing to reduce digital glare which is iTunes' primary issue as far as I am concerned. It stands out by having a fairly recessed and lacklustre midrange. BP does not allow DSD or FLAC playback either but I suspect the target audience for this cheap plug-in has little value for those features to start with. All in all BP does something commensurate with its price but I can't really recommend it for serious audiophile playback. The other options are not that much more expensive but deliver a far better musical experience and more features. 


 Moving on to Decibel, we get to the descendent of Ayre Wave which used to be a free program but will now set you back $32.99, not a huge investment by any audio standard (note again the brilliant .99 pricing that fools all of us into thinking this app is far cheaper than it is). Although quite easy to use, Decibel adds memory playback and FLAC support but not DSD and provides an option for completely avoiding iTunes whilst picking files and folders in Finder to play directly. 

 Like with BitPerfect the convenience of automatic sample rate switching is great and I like the ability to operate with or without iTunes or simply drag a file from iTunes into the Decibel window to create a playlist. Unfortunately I don't find sound quality much better than BitPerfect. There's still prominent digital glare which I hate so much although to Decibel's credit midrange presence is quite improved. There is no doubt in my mind that there is an improvement over iTunes with Decibel but I can't really justify the price gap over BitPerfect nor do I find its sound quality to quite qualify it as high-end audio. 