I'm new to this forum (sort of). Don't know if I have to start a new thread.
Same problem. Slightly different hardware. Audio output is to an old Onkyo passthrough "USB sound card", which is only capable of converting USB to s/pdif optical. Thence to a Sony A/V receiver, which makes clear when it is receiving a DTS encoded audio stream, or just stereo.
Sound files are mostly DTS .wav 44.1kHz/24bitdepth/6channel/1411bitrate. Some are .ac3 with same parameters, except 48kHz.
Depending on the settings, I either get stereo output, or the familiar "Playback could not be started on the output "wasapi" [either version] using the format "44.1kHz 32 bit [yes, 32] 6 ch", because my hardware can't support it.
What makes this problem more frustrating, er, tantalizing, is that MC 14 is still on the same Windows 7 machine, and it is still working perfectly with output as source number of channels, source bitdepth, no resampling, etc.
How do I set MC17 to do bit perfect passthrough, and not worry about my "hardware", which isn't involved in decoding the DTS anyway.
Thanks for any help.
donE