Configure JRIVER with MERGING+NADAC on MacOS

Owned by David Jacques
Last updated: Feb 19, 2018

Prerequisite

The MERGING+NADAC CoreAudio driver is installed and configured
JRiver Media Center is installed http://www.jriver.com/

 

Step-by-step guide

  1. Start JRiver Media Center 
  2. Click on the Tools drop down menu, and select Options


  3. Under  Audio Device, select MERGING + NADAC (Core Audio)

     
  4. Click on Device settings and under Buffering, set Software to 100ms(recommended).

     
  5. Under Settings, in order to play DSD without conversion and get the best quality, select Bitstreaming:YES (DSD) 


  6. Click on DSP & output format under Settings.
    Set Output Encoding to None 
    In the Sampling rate table, set all Input sampling rates to No change, except for Less than 44,100 Hz, that should be set to 44,100 Hz.
    Close this setting window 


  7. Play a file :


  8. Select your file:


  9. Playing: