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[USCdeacon]

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Using it with my imac, it is auto detected.
1 thing to note, default setting is only 16bit. I manually change it to 24bit.
 
Working nicely with my sr60i & soundmagic pl30, can feel the increase in bass.

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!

 

[rjm003]

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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.