Where's the multichannel LPCM?

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Originally Posted by rarredoa

Can it be called lossless if it is downsampled? What was PAP, again? I like to think i have a good sound card, but no VISTA.

Technically you are correct, if its downsampled and you are not getting the exact bit count - but its still not compressed lossy - Bit count and information is way to high to be lossy. So what do we call downsampled 48khz/24 bits - to 48khz/16 bits...the 1080i of sound? You are getting lossless if the track was mastered in 48khz/16 bits no real downsampling here. PAP is Protected Audio Path, with the Xonar and Azuntech cards you will be able to have a protected audio path that AACS requires. On the Xonar card you will have it even using th 7.1 analog inputs on the daughter card (no need for HDMI if you don't have a HDMI receiver yet). You have an X-Fi if I'm not mistaken - good card for now - but you can't upsample unless you have Vista - Vista did get some audio things right such as there special settings in the Advanced properties - you can set the default bit rate and that's how it will output sound as. Can't go into detail but XP is kinda weak on the audio side compared to Vista.