Comparative reviews are always difficult to do, especially when you have more than five different products in one article. In total, I’ve tested a total of nine players: three from Sonic Studio (Amarra, MINI, and Junior), Audirvana and Audirvana+, Pure Music, Fidelia, Decibel, and BitPerfect.
The last few months, I’ve tried and tested the majority of available audio players for OS X. Even though Windows users still represent a big part of Headfonia readers, I choose to focus on OS X for now because it’s easier to do as I use Mac myself, but also because for most developers, OS X seems to be the platform of choice when it comes to high quality audio playback.
Sometime in 2011 I began thinking about the possibility of doing a review on high quality audio players for the Mac OS X operating system.