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Originally Posted by USCdeacon 

hey radonsg, how did you manually change it to 24bit?  And does changing it to 24bit matter if most of my music is ALAC/16bit?  (On the first uDAC by the way).  Thanks!

It's a setting on your computer and depends on which OS you are using. For Vista/Windows 7, it's the "manage audio devices" dialog, click on the playback device, select the advanced tab, and change the default format from 2 channel 16 bit 48 kHz to 2 channel 24 bit 96kHz.

It's not clear to me what if any effect this has when playing back 16bit 44.1kHz media. I do know that if can degrade sound quality if Windows internally converts from 44.1kHz to 48 kHz because it thinks the output device can only handle 48khz.