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In Reply to: RE: fyi foobar wasapi plug-in output bit depth posted by Roseval on February 19, 2012 at 01:20:37:
Just about all the receivers used in complete DACs will accept 24-bit input, whether the DAC chip itself is 16 or 24 bit.
Seems like I don't understand how zero padding a 16-bit file to 24-bit in wasapi, then having the digital receiver truncate the 24-bit file back to 16-bits (in case of a 16-bit DAC chip), is not a lossless process.
Take a look at the usual advice on the internet:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/568988/foobar2000-with-wasapi-setting-bit-rate
"If your DAC accepts 24 bit input, use 24. When you play 16 bit recordings, 8 zero bits will be padded to the 16 to obtain 24 bits with zero impact on sound quality."
All this "leave it at 24-bits" with "zero impact on sound quality" just doesn't apply to DACs with 16 or 18 bit DAC chips with a CS8412 24-bit receiver.
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