[Flognuts]

does it matter or is there a certain 1 I should select?

 

[Badd99]

Higher the better.

 

[germanium]

If you have a Xonar card set it to the source sample rate but bump the bit depth to 24 bit such as for CD set to 24 bit 44.1KHz then let the card resample it to a higher bit rate by changing the output sample rate in Xonars driver. This is because Xonars have a very accurate sample rate converter & it functions as a jitter reduction device as well but in order for it to reduce jitter you have to convert the sample rate to something other than 44.1KHz. This card has no clock crystal for 44.1KHz so jitter can be high if you don't convert the sample rate. The xonars have poor performance if you you run everthing at 44.1KHz sample rate.

 

[somestranger26]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Badd99 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Higher the better.

100% WRONG. Different sample rate from source = resampling = sound quality loss.

Set the sample rate to whatever the source material is, so if you're playing music from a CD (or was ripped from a CD) you should be using 44.1kHz. If you're using onboard audio for digital out, it may resample automatically, in which case resampling is outside your control.