AudioQuest DragonFly decoding 192 kHz as 44.1 using Kodi/XBMC?

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  1. davidbix

    davidbix Forum Resident Thread Starter

    So I got a DragonFly a couple months ago to use with my Sennheiser HD598 headphones and it sounds great, a giant upgrade over the onboard sound of my MacBook Air (2012 13" running Mavericks because I've been weirdly hesitant to upgrade to Yosemite). At first, I was using VLC, which doesn't change sampling rates on the fly, so I usually just set it to always output at 96 kHz. I started having some issues with VLC so I decided to use Kodi (the former XBMC).

    So it turns out Kodi DOES switch sampling rate output on the fly, which is nice, but when I feed it a 192 kHz file, it's decoding as 44.1 kHz per both the light on the DragonFly (turns green) and th Audio Devices settings in OSX (automatically switches to 44.1 kHz and I can't change it). It should be switching to 96 kHz, which is the maximum sampling rate supported/half of 192 khz.

    Is this fixable? If not, what other freeware apps can I use that have Kodi's level of compatibility, will properly cut 192 khz down to 96 kHz, might even have on the fly switching, etc?

    Thanks!
     
  2. Monroro

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    I'm not a pro at this stuff and I don't use Kodi (I use Audirvana Plus with my Dragonfly 1.2), but maybe you need to go into your Audio MIDI Setup (Applications > Utilities...) and output format to 96000.0 Hz.
     
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