I downloaded (from HD Tracks) what what supposed to be a 96/24 album, but when I go to play it, J River tells me it is 88.2, and says my DAC doesn't support this, and resamples to 48/24, which plays fine (but is not what I paid for!)
My DAC (in the Marantz SA8004) is actually supposed to support this bitrate when supplied by SPDIF. 96/24 Does work.
I looked into the optical out on my motherboard (gigabyte GA-H67MA-D2H-B3) which uses the Realtek ALC892 chip, which is supposed to support 88.2 as well as 96 and up to 192/24. If I go to the HD Audio control panel, under "default formats" it includes 44.1, 48, 96, 192. That is, leaves out 88.2 and 176.4, even though according to the gigabyte and the Realtek literature, those bitrates should be supported.
Is this something others have come across?
I have sent info requests to both Realtek and Gigabyte.
..Mike