Downsampling is an android "feature" for compatibility. It resamples every stream to 48/16 to work on every, even the cheapest DACs. It's not kernel related (well, partially), but mainly OS limitation, so bypassing this requires either heavy modifications to android sound logic, especially if...

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OK, I'll start from theory - on of android sound problems is its own sound layer. So every sound you play goes like this: music player --> android layer --> alsa --> dac --> speaker. Android layer can't pass stream higher than 48/16, so it will downsample anything above (and usually upsample...

Just a small update on my situation: bit-perfect playback on android without audiorecorderpro is possible.   I was able to run mpd on debian, running on top of android. So this way my audio stream goes directly to alsa (and my dac), bypassing any interference on android side...

Honestly i have no idea. Probably you can configure alsa through terminal, but it's much easier to use notepad++ or something like this to edit asound.conf. As for the audio_policy - I highly doubt that there is any way to do it through terminal. 2All: Does anyone here is (or knows) any decent...

That's great! But now we have to convince the developer to include alsa output module, and we are good to go for bit-perfect audio output from android. :D

Now I want to try to run MPD server on android somehow, to bypass any interference from the os itself and communicate directly with alsa. Controlling it would be easy, there are tons of MPD Clients on android. But until then you can try to use XBMC, it supposed to communicate with alsa directly...

Hi all,   I was able to use FiiO E07K with HTC One X running CyanogenMod without using AuidoRecorderPro, or any other third-party applications. And it is running 96/24 as well. It involved a little bit of programming, but nothing too hard. If you're interested - check the thread at xda...