VNandor
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To say something relevant, audiophiles usually actively try to bypass the built-in mixer by using drivers such as ASIO or WASAPI. Youtube's audio sample rate is either 44.1kHz or 48kHz depending on the specific video. I don't see why the same people who bypass the windows mixer to gain sound quality would want to rely on Windows to do some of their upsampling. It would make sense to match the sample rate to the video's sample rate so the signal would not get resampled by Windows.
Most modern DACs will oversample well into the MHz range not just to 384kHz using its dedicated filters. I doubt Windows would do any better than that. If you use a NOS DAC, you can use something like the MScaler or if you are not into that, you could probably figure out a way to pipe chrome's audio output into some "dedicated software upsampler".
Most modern DACs will oversample well into the MHz range not just to 384kHz using its dedicated filters. I doubt Windows would do any better than that. If you use a NOS DAC, you can use something like the MScaler or if you are not into that, you could probably figure out a way to pipe chrome's audio output into some "dedicated software upsampler".
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