December 2016

Great Audiophile Gift Ideas For The 2016 Holiday Season
Enjoy the Music.com celebrates our 11th annual gift ideas to give your audiophile!

Amarra For Tidal

  Amarra for TIDAL brings the award-winning Amarra sound to your TIDAL music experience! You may hear a wider soundstage, experience better dynamics, and feel the silence of a quieter background. Use their Sonic EQ presets to personalize the sound to your taste. In addition, create playlists to share with your TIDAL mobile app plus there's customizable EQ setting. Take control of the sound from your TIDAL lossless stream.

Powered by Dirac, you get iRC (impulse Response Correction) that seeks to addresses issues found in all listening environments: irregular rooms, windows, speaker and furniture placement contribute to a reduced soundstage, balance problems, and often a build-up of bass frequencies. iRC Impulse Response Correction powered by Dirac brings these under control, resulting in a more focused soundstage with improved phase coherence. Use your iRC license with Amarra sQ+, Symphony, and Amarra for TIDAL. It supports single filter file for multiple sample rates up to 384kHz.

Popularity for Tidal's hi-res streaming service ($19.99 per month) is at an all-time high. For subscribers using Mac OSX, the Amarra for Tidal player trades a bit of usability for a very substantial jump in audio fidelity. The player bypasses the Mac's CoreAudio functions, delivering the music with reduced grain and much better soundscape depth. The player also offers a fantastic equalizer that will even make the staunchest purist rethink their attitude toward EQ. The interface can be a tad clunky at times, but once the music starts playing, most quibbles will fade into the dead quiet background.

Recommended by Enjoy the Music.com's Dave Hanson

Get Sonic Studio's Amarra for TIDAL here.