[parrydave]

Question:
What would AE make of one of these devices.....
Musiland Monitor 01

They seem to deliver 24 bit/192kHz over optical/coax using clever ASIO and WASAPI drivers. People have had great success using with Foobar2k outputing hi def audio to DACs via this device. If Windows sees this device with supported modes up to 192kHz, will AE be able to operate at >48kHz?

My AVR doesn't have HDMI audio support. This is my only route to HD audio.

Thanks
Dave

I don't know anything about that device, but it's driver would have to decode DTS-MA/TrueHD for that to work, as well as to report those as supported modes to Windows. 24/192 is what you need for those formats, but you also need a decoder somewhere that would change the stream from these encoded formats to PCM. AE can decode TrueHD losslessly to PCM, so that's fine, but not DTS-MA. Your money might be better put to a receiver that supports those formats.

Thanks DDDamien,
Now i've got the nightly running ok and can see how the settings configured, can i rephrase my question?
With "Optical/Coax" selected in settings, assuming hardware supports the formats etc, will AE pass 96kHz 2-channel or is it locked to either 44.1 or 48kHz over Optical/Coax?
And if it will work at the higher rate, will it match the source file sample rate or reclock? I saw the discussion on advancedsettings.xml switch to disable 44.1>48kHz.

Given the limitations of my AVR (no HDMI audio) my best hope is to be able to play 2-ch 96khz Flac over spdif (which my AVR will accept!) or to pass to appropriate DAC.

Thanks and great work.
Dave