Black Omega at Mac App Store analyse

Black Omega is a high fidelity audio player guaranteed to render your music collection with bit perfect resolution. Designed specifically for audiophiles the player fully utilises surround sound systems and computer audio hardware to immerse you into your favourite melody. Access and play your iTunes Library seamlessly.

With over 16 years of personal research & development each output pathway and audio decoder has been developed from the ground up and fine tuned in order to seamlessly deliver a perfect audio stream. It is ideal for playback of modern HiRes FLAC and Apple Lossless files including surround sound and multi-channel tracks.

Each audio format decoder has been developed in house. Supports MPEG Audio Layer-3 (mp3), Advanced Audio Codec (AAC), Apple Lossless, Vorbis Ogg, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, WavPack, MusePack and Monkey Audio files.

* Playback of up to 192kHz and 24-bit depth.
* 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound and pan-stereo playback.
* Integration with multiple iTunes collection.
* Direct integration, via CoreAudio HAL, into sound hardware.
* Perfectly seamless playback.
* Load, edit, play and save your playlists.
* Retina support.

Based on the philosophy that sound reproduction should be exactly as the original artist intended the audio playback engine ensures a bit-perfect audio stream is delivered directly to your computer’s DAC hardware. Taking full advantage of your DACs playback capacity the realtime critical process renders a perfect seamless surround sound or stereo signal whilst ensuring responsive playback controls.

Black Omega has been designed to utilise the full playback capacity of modern 7.1 surround sound cards and multi-channel DACs. This makes this player unique in that it will playback 5.1 surround sound FLAC, Apple Lossless and WAV files perfectly or up/down mix to match your specific speaker configuration. It can also play stereo tracks simultaneously through your front, surround and rear speakers totally immersing you in a sea of harmony.