Hi
Thanks for this fast reply, and it might make sense to ask in the Sound Science section too.
But, a quick follow up question to your comments. How do you know, with the WASAPI interface, that the sample rates are being fed direct into the sound card's DAC without any change?
I added the WASAPI component to Foobar, but if I now specify one of the WASAPI outputs, there is a requirement in its options to specify the output data format. My sense is this will override the data format of the music clip, and I don't know how to ascertain exactly what is coming out of Foobar and into the sound card.
I do understand that one could go through the processes you suggest as a work-around, but then I'd slightly worry that if a person was then detecting any difference in the files, it would be the result of a double resampling/transcoding and the filter artifacts caused by such a process!
Many thanks for any further thoughts you might have.