BitPerfect App Reviews

If Mac is hardwired via USB into audio system, Bitperfect works well. However, if going wireless via Apple TV, it crashes repeatedly and overwelms the Macs console log. Customer email support is helpful but apparently the wireless issue revolves around compatibility problems between Bitperfect and OS X Yosemite 10.

This is a pretty good version. It’s working much better than the previous one that would cut out.

Can’t open the app. Wouldn’t open through App Store after purchase. Won’t open from Applications. Won’t open from Launchpad. Restarted and still nothing. The Audiophile forums warbed of this.

First of all, the price for this program is very reasonable for which the author must be applauded but the effects of the program on my music is mixed. With CD quality music (16 bit, 44 kHz) enabling Bitperfect had a noticeable effect on the music. Basically it produced a very pleasing atmosphere to the music. Listening to Verdis Requiem the recording became more alive, and I felt like I was transported from a recording into the concert hall. This was with upsampling enabled, which I believe is beneficial to standard resolution music. With high resolution files, however, say 24 bit, 192 kHz, it had an opposite effect. The music felt more dead, like the magic was taken out of it. The sound of piano was muddied. I feel that at high resolution there should be no effect on the sound as iTunes is bit perfect on its own, but there was definitely an effect and it was not a positive one. Which leads me to a mixed conclusion and three stars. As far as up sampling, it is a form of digital processing, and to my mind, is no different from enabling artificial surround sound on an inexpensive receiver. In other words, opposite to the audiophile goal of pure signal path. The psychoacoustic effect on standard resolution files is pleasing, but an artifice. That pleasing effect is probably worth the small fee for this program if most of your music files are CD quality or less.

There is a noticable difference when you first use the app. The music sounds so much more clear, crisp, and even louder. However, there are still small problems with the app that are preventing it from becoming a great app. First of all, it won’t let you adjust the volume at times. In order to change the volume you will need to do it through the bitperfect app instead of itunes, which can get a bit annoying. Secondly, sometimes it won’t change the song playing. It seems as if bitperfect will be playing one song and itunes is playing another–I still haven’t found a way to fix this problem. Overall this is a solid app with huge potential if the minor problems are fixed. It does enhance sound quality but has a couple bugs that makes it frustrating to use at times. If these problems are fixed then the app is defintely worth the $10.

I’m not going on about the sound because I don’t know if I hear a real difference or if it is perception based upon my expectation. One thing that is just not forgivable is how often I have to stumble around quiting iTunes, quiting BitPerfect, relaunching, changing output channels until I finally get audio out. This is the only app on my system with this issue. Really a pain: I don’t understand the sequence I need to follow so I don’t need to waste 3 minutes every time to get it working. I’ll stick with another free 24/96 player, as a rule, because the free app just works.

I have a huge collection of music (part of it in 24bit) and I bought a DAC for my IEM. With the DAC I had an annoying hiss that I thought were coming from the DAC itself. After a number of tests, I found it was from iTunes. I have been recommended to buy this small app, and it fixed the problem! no more hiss, and I can now fully enjoy my library! thank you BitPerfect!

Every since I moved to CD’s and then to MP3’s I’ve just not enjoyed music as much as I did in previous years. Being an Electrical Engineer I learned all about sampling and DSP theory and so I took the CD quality “perfect reproduction pitch" at face value and just wrote it off to getting older. But then one day I started doing research on exactly how many A/D’s work and also how MP3 compression works, this starting casting doubts in my mind about the digital audio systems we all jumped on on the 1990’s. Long story short, I think with each compromise along the way (i.e 16 bit sampling verses 24 bit verses 32 bit and 44.Khz verses 96Khz etc) a little more is lost. Neil Young’s Pono project on Kickstarter made me realize I’m not the only one who thinks this… Anyway while digitally recording the original analog sources at maximum rates can’t be replaced, up-sampling and dithering is next best thing. If you have good equipment and a good ear, you will hear a difference. I would compare it to how good image editors offer more than just Brightness and Contrast (volume and basic EQ) they also offer things like highlights, shadows and black point controls in order to help compensate for compression loss. Up-sampling with dithering helps to flatten the audio “image” and presents a better analog signal to your amplifier. Ok enough ramble - works great - do recommend it!

My iTunes music library contains a variety of lossless formats: 16 bit/44kHz, 24 bit/96kHz, and 24 bit/192kHz, and I prefer to listen without upsampling or downsampling. BitPerfect makes that effortless and switches on the fly within iTunes. For my purposes, this is a solid product at a good price which adds a welcome utility and versatility to iTunes. Of course, you can use it to upsample or downsample too if that’s your thing.

I’m sure this app is great in theory, but I bought it, installed it, and it doesn’t open at all. Wasted $10. Wait until others have successfully tested this on Mac OS X El Capitán.

The new 3.0 release has significant improvements. A better engine, more user friendly, a better easier to understand user manual (on the web site). I am extremely pleased with this version of Bitperfect. If you are an audiophile, this is easily the best $10 you can spend to make your MAC audio even better.

This app claimes to work on OSX 10.7 and later however it doesnt work on 10.9.5. You don’t learn this until you try to run it on Mavricks and go to their site for support where there is a message about the problem, says they are working on a solution and suggests in the mean time you should use time machine to revert to an older version. Thats great for people who already owen an older verison but if they don’t have a working version for new customers they need to remove this from the App store or change the compatibility. They shouldn’t take money for a product they know doest work.

This program did naught save cause iTunes to randomly cut out at the beginning songs. I had to delete the program to correct the problem. Amarra is a much better, albeit more expensive choice.

EDIT: VIrtually all my gapless albums FAIL to smoothly play back gaplessly so -2 stars. This is a central feature of the software in my opinion and it fails to work properly. I understand iTunes is very much to blame, but other applications (Audirvana) manage to work around this through various hacks on their end. I will gladly revert back to 5 stars once this is fixed in a new version (currently on v3.0) –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Alright so I’ve tried virtually ALL “audiophile” audio apps out there: Amarra, Pure Music, Audirvana (in Legacy iTunes integration Mode), and finally BitPerfect. In short, BitPerfect is the best audio app out of all 4, the most reasonably priced, and does exactly what I want and nothing more. For reference, my setup is MBP with OS X El Capitan, Sennheiser HD 800, and OPPO HA-1 amp/dac. Alright so with that out of the waym why is BitPerfect the “best” out of all the options out there. 1. iTunes Integration and Playback: BitPerfect seamlessly integrates with iTunes. You click a song and it starts playing right away. No loading times, nothing. Try that with Amarra or Pure Music and you’d be staring at “Loading Please Wait” screens for sometimes half a minute… 2. Gapless Playback: Decently executed but I’ve encountered bugs every once in a while. Definitely better than Amarra and Pure Music which have extremely buggy playback engines. Audirvana seems do this slightly better. 3. Oversampling/Integer Mode: BitPerfect has nice Oversampling features and is realatively bug free, especially with Integer Mode. BitPerfect is only (barely) topped by Audirvana because Audirvana offers more control with the Oversampling filter paramters. Pure Music has increadibly buggy oversampling especially with Integer Mode enabled, Amarra Symphony doesn’t even have this feature. 4. Audio Quality: This is digital playback. Audio quality is the same as any app out there. Only thing that can make BitPerfect sound "better” is the signal processing done bu Oversampling/Integer Mode. Don’t be fooled by advertisement claiming superior audio quality of other programs. It’s nonsense in the purest form. Audiophoolery if you will. 5. Minimal Interface: BitPerfect is out of your way and does it’s job when required. I very much prefer the iTunes interface for browsing my music. I believe Apple is very capable at designing fluid interfaces and any other audio program is lacking, and missing features (like Apple Music). It’s nice that BitPerfect does it’s job in the background, without any window to get in my way. Also it doesn’t try to shove it’s playlist or library browser features in your face. 6. Price: Fraction of the price of all other products. Seriously anything more than $10 and you’re getting robbed.

This application improved sound quality using iTunes 12.3 and OSX 10.11. However it does not support Airplay, the crossfade feature is wonky and it behaves erratically.

Kludgy, spotty, poorly functioning. Plays about 5 seconds of a song, then stops for a half second, then plays the same 5 seconds over and over on a stock mac mini. The software has so many quirks and glitches. And when it did work for me, it actually made the sound worse.

I love using it. I hear a difference between BitPerfect and Apple’s iTunes. However, every time I have Bitperfect running, it routes every other program’s audio through the built-in speakers. So when I jump from iTunes to YouTube, I’m no longer hearing it through my DAC. Freaking annoying if you ask me. Please fix this.