First of all, my MC environment: Win7, WASAPI exclusive, HDMI audio connection nVidia->Denon.
I have different sources besides usual 44.1 kHz/16 bit/2 ch. - 22/16/2, 48/16/2, 96/24/2, 88/24/2, 88/24/6,... Denon should support all of them but nVidia HDMI audio driver allows only 44, 48, 96, 192 kHz output. Also 96/24/6 is not possible (BTW can somebody tell me why?) I want to avoid seeing message "Unable to play ... because output format is not supported blah-blah ..." because this stops playback until I press OK.
I don't want to use DSP Studio feature that allows resampling because this will require changing it's settings for each source. Sure, it is possible to playback all sources in 48/16 using same DSP Studio settings, but this will degrade some sources.
I see two options how to solve this: 1 - just fallback to resampling with some alternate predefined format instead of displaying blocking message box (maybe show somewhere somehow that playback performed with alternate settings); 2 - add more flexibility to DSP Studio, may be allow linking zones with source format. Option 1 seems to be easy to implement and universally. But option 2 also will be useful even if option 1 implemented.
One more quest: has anyone tried HDMI audio output with Core i3? Does it also allow only 44, 48, 96, 192?