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I hate to admit it

But I got some 24/96 music from HDTracks.com, converted to Apple Lossless, and dropped into iTunes. Thought they sounded great through my new DAC, which is hooked up to the iMac via TOSLINK. Come to find out that the iMac is only outputting 16/44 audio by default, and if the digital cable is unplugged, it always reverts to that. Whoops. So this time I ensure that iMac is indeed putting out 24/96, but I don't hear a magical transformation. Maybe a vague sense that the higher-res music has a better sense of presence. Worse, if I leave the iMac set to 24/96 all the time, it seems to me that my regular 16/44 tracks actually sound a bit worse. Somehow more muddled. Hmm.


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