This is my first time setting up a dac/amp to my pc and I just had a quick question. In windows; what should I set the default sample rate and bit depth to?
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So personally I like to set it to 24/96, as it’s high enough for high res files, something the computer can typically handle real time without too much latency, and avoids issues for most applications.
If you are really concerned about it for music, you can use wasapi or asio if your player supports it so it switches the samplerate and bit depth based on the file
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I did not even knew that (I’m on linux here – my music computer is running windows, with a recording interface at 16/44.1). With a new DAC I thought I’d have to set windows to upsample everything to (possibly atrocious) levels. Excellent news. Thanks. 
In linux there are other ways to do it (but personally I really haven’t messed around with linux audio)
Don’t.
I hear it’s gotten better than it was before lol, haven’t done anything recent
Thought my headphones were broken one day last year, but it was Pulseaudio playing everything twice at the same time (?). I just uninstalled pulseaudio and use a special alsa config file since. But even then, sometimes, for whatever reason, the left channel becomes the right channel and vice versa.
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I remember there was a Zeos video where he said he set Windows to use 24 bit audio in order to avoid
any loss of fidelity when reducing the volume digitally in the OS. If anyone else happens to remember that video, correct if I’m misremembering.
It sounds reasonable. But I’m not sure if it’s actually true in practice.
You don’t do that anyway unless you want to kill your ears.
It still affects, just a bit less. If you really want to avoid quality loss make sure you bypass digital volume
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Apparently the Nobsound ns-05p is great for volume control. Passive, 50$.
I’d pay 50$ for this instead of dying every time the windows start up sound starts @ 100%
Awesome, Thank you!
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There’s a great video, probably 10 years old now, on what was wrong with Linux audio and how they are going to fix it.
Another one about 5 years later by the same guy on how they really didn’t fix anything ans it’s still just as bad.
I’m not surprised lol
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