WTF?

WTF?

Posted by Ivan303 (A) on July 2, 2015 at 13:44:27

Just go a 'new' DAC that purports to display input sample rate, hooked it up the the USB port of the MacBook Air with the worlds cheapest 2 meter USB cable and it sounds GREAT driving my DH600 cans but...

Display on the DAC seems to think that the audio format it's seeing is PCM 48/32. Without playing music the display reads PCM 48/16 but the second I hit play it's reading 48/32.

Even an album that I think I downloaded from the net at 24/96 or even higher rez plays on VLC at what ppurports to be PCM 48/32.

OK. sounds great but I'm a bit puzzled.

Does OS-X up-sample the output of even Spotify?

First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass

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Topic - WTF? - Ivan303 13:44:27 07/02/15 (21)

macs - bullethead 18:49:47 07/02/15 (9)

At least I don't need to install a 'driver'... - Ivan303 19:21:15 07/02/15 (8)

your talking to a Linux guy - bullethead 05:00:47 07/03/15 (5)

But the problem with Linux is that ALSA is not optimized for playback - Gordon Rankin 06:47:48 07/07/15 (0)

Does Linux use 'drivers'? - Ivan303 08:12:09 07/03/15 (3)

RE: Does Linux use 'drivers'? - bullethead 08:56:55 07/03/15 (2)

RE: Does Linux use 'drivers'? - Tony Lauck 10:20:26 07/03/15 (1)

RE: Does Linux use 'drivers'? - bullethead 15:46:29 07/03/15 (0)

RE: At least I don't need to install a 'driver'... - Bob_C 22:18:22 07/02/15 (1)

I don't need to install a 'driver'... - fmak 22:10:20 07/05/15 (0)

bit confused here....... - Tom Schuman 17:59:51 07/02/15 (3)

RE: bit confused here....... - Tony Lauck 18:41:15 07/02/15 (0)

Yep... - Ivan303 18:32:06 07/02/15 (1)

RE: Yep... - Tom Schuman 18:51:06 07/02/15 (0)

RE: WTF? - Roseval 13:47:38 07/02/15 (6)

RE: WTF? - AbeCollins 14:01:37 07/02/15 (4)

Well, I can certainly hear the difference between streaming 16/44.1 Lossless FLAC... - Ivan303 14:11:13 07/02/15 (3)

RE: Well, I can certainly hear the difference between streaming 16/44.1 Lossless FLAC... - AbeCollins 20:52:36 07/02/15 (2)

Got it hooked up to the SONOS Connect now... - Ivan303 21:08:27 07/02/15 (1)

RE: Got it hooked up to the SONOS Connect now... - AbeCollins 00:19:57 07/03/15 (0)

RE: Ah yes... - Ivan303 13:58:26 07/02/15 (0)

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