The selling point that matters the most for me is the $129 price tag which looks like a great bargain compared to the Amarra. And if you do compare the functions of two players on the comparison table, Pure Music does look to be the better buy. Loaded with great features, but the cluttered user interface and preferences panel makes Pure Music a relatively complicated player to learn. The graphical user interface (GUI) of Pure Music is extremely messy, especially when you turn on the meter displays. While I’m not a big fan of the cluttered GUI, I do appreciate the fact that the controls offered are more full featured than many of the other players. Even in some aspects, the fact that Pure Music includes things like precise stops on the volume control and dedicated buttons on the player window for invert, dim, mute, memory play, upsample, and even reset are in fact very nice. Memory Play (for A-B comparison purposes).High quality audio streaming to a remote computer.Graphic Meter Display that’s capable of Dynamic Range Metering.Play FLAC files with Itunes without an additional add-on.Upsampling: NOS Classic Type Upsampling.Left/Right Balance Control, the only player to offer balance control.Volume Control Settings: Precise volume control (including volume boost and volume reduction) with numbered spots.Some of the features unique to Pure Music includes: Overall you get a lot of control over how you want the parameters to be, and even if they are not presented in the most elegant manner, again I appreciate the fact rich features of Pure Music. I was a little surprised to find that Pure Music doesn’t use Benchmark’s iZotope resampling engine, as iZotope seems to be the standard high-quality engine used in most of the players here. One setting that stands out however is an upsampling preset labelled as a NOS Upsampling method (Preferences > Music Server Settings > Advanced > Upsampling Method > NOS Type “Classic” Upsampling”.
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