If you are a casual listener who uses Spotify or Apple Music via a web browser, save your money. But if you have , file ripping, or high-res streaming, Audirvana is the most reliable, great-sounding, and visually pleasant player on the Windows platform right now.

Audirvana includes two professional-grade resamplers (SoX and R8Brain). You can upsample any Red Book CD (44.1kHz) to DSD128 or 384kHz PCM in real-time. This is particularly useful for DACs that sound better at higher sample rates (e.g., Chord, iFi, Topping).

For Tidal users, Audirvana performs the of MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) in software, sending the "authenticated" stream to your MQA-enabled DAC for the final unfold. On Windows, this is significantly more reliable than Tidal’s own desktop app.

Early versions of Audirvana on Windows had a reputation for being clunky and less polished than the Mac version. That is no longer the case. The modern UI (introduced with Studio) is .