[yashu]

I know the hagUSB does not support higher than 48khz output, but I was wondering if it supported at least 44.1khz but at a 24bit word length.

I cannot find much documentation about this, although there is plenty of information about it's 48khz limit, I do not see much on the word length.

How would the hagUSB handle output at 44.1khz but at 24bits... I have a hag USB and want to try this, but I want to know that if I do, and I hear sound, that I am getting a true 24bit output, albiet at 44.1khz.

I have various decoders that can work, decode, dither, a 44.1khz file at a 24bit resolution as opposed to 16bit. I understand that even at 44.1khz, the 24bit resolution can offer some sonic differences. I am not going to say improvements because I have not tried it yet or even know if the hagUSB supports this. honestly I don't even know if I am using the right language here.

Any help would be appreciated.

[hagtech]

No, 16 bit only.

jh

[yashu]

Thankyou for the quick reply. I have been toying with this input plugin, and it has options for 16bit and for 24bit, but it is unclear if this is just the resolution that it does the decoding and noise shaping/dithering, or if this is the actual output resolution.

The reason your answer is important is that it plays audio fine at the 24bit setting, and I would have no idea if it was really outputting 24bit or not, but if the hagusb cannot output 24bit, then the codec must be dithering down to 16bits for output, because I would not be hearing sound if it was not doing so.

I was hoping that this would be the case, that the 24bit setting was just an internal resolution for the input plugin and it's noise shaping calculations and that i was still getting 16bit output!

Some of these 3rd party plugins for winamp and foobar have so little documentation...

Anyway, thankyou.