Dacmagic vs sound card, am I doing something wrong

galaxyjb

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I might be doing something wrong cause this seems strange to me, on the other hand I might have been expecting too much.

I purchased a dacmagic and first when using toslink the signal is locked at 48khz on USB as indicated by the dacmagic leds the signal will run at 44khz playing through a Sony vaio desktop, I cannot get it to switch to 96khz when playing material that is encoded that high playing though media monkey or anything else. The setup I had before was 1/8 to rca adapter from the vaio motherboard headphone out to onkyo grand integra preamplifier to onkyo grand integra amp to sonus faber concerto domus floor standing speakers

Now with the dacmagic taking the place of the 1/8 to rca to preamplifier either with to slink or USB playing CDs ripped to 24/96 flac I hear almost no change in sound at all, am I doing something wrong or is my internal sound card just that good.
 
If the DAC supports 96kHz over USB, then it should work, though you may need to tweak some OS settings.

What OS are you running?

Download the free version of J. River Media Center, Media Jukebox.

Also, what is going in the OS Sound controls....do you see your device and can you select its advanced properties?

You will want to run WASAPI to bypass Windows and it alos would be good to know if the DAC can auto-switch sample rates on the fly, which comes in handy, but you can simply set 96kHz in your player and upsample anything < 96kHz which is what I do because I am lazy and I now have plenty of 96kHz + content.

dc
 
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