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Look at the AK SP1000 New TOL A&K DAP thread at message#6938 onwards.
For reference, here is a link: post #6938. The discussion was specifically about the Qobuz Android app, not the music stream (see post #6965). His recommendation was that to play a Qobuz stream at 24 bit resolution on Android, use a different app instead of the Qobuz app.
Yes. In that case I hope Qobuz is aware of the bug in their app and fix it.
Many people don't have a DAC that reports bit rate as well as sample rate.
Have you confirmed that the same thing is not happening with the stream? I am not sure the recommendation in the AK thread to use a stream had been tested/confirmed.
That appears to be a problem unique to the SP1000. All of you should report the problem in detail to Qobuz to ensure that it gets attention.
In standard Android DAPs and phones the situation is actually worse: the Qobuz and Tidal apps do not bypass a system downsampling problem that outputs only 16/48 in most cases.
In all of these situations, the solution is to use a third-party player app that bypasses the system. I use UAPP, but that is not supported by the AK "Open APP" service.