JaZZ
Headphoneus Supremus
Actually I'm already fully served with Rachmaninov Symphonies and Piano Concertos (also in 24/96), but out of interest I would buy the track with the critical «clipping» if you can safely name me the matching recording and format (including the exact position). I'm registered at eClassical.Hello again Jazz, sorry, but I can't do that for you, its a copy-righted promo disc I got directly from the SSO, a disc which I am not allowed to send anyone digital copies of like that.
But I can recommend that you buy it, or for that matter, their recording of Rach's 1st symphony which is an even better recording than the SACD BIS 1712 of the 2nd symphony. BIS1712 is a native 24/44.1 recording and the 1st which I can't remember the disc number of now, I only have it as download, is a native 24/96 recording.
And yes as expected 24/96 sounds better than 24/44.1 in this case.
More effortless and more realistic via my Mscaler.
Both are available for download as native hi res files from e.Classical.com
But I only used the 16/44.1 layer of the SACD disc they had just given me during some of those early DAVE/ BLU2 /HMS tests.
Just from a technical perspective: From what I get -25 dB is already extremely loud with the Utopia (as is -e.g. 7 dB with the HE1000 or the HD 800), and with such a setting clipping is simply impossible for the DAVE, regardless of dynamic peaks (which won't exceed the selected volume level).