[TFHfony]

I have been experiencing small audio dropouts when playing AC3 files on Kodi. While playing with the settings, I was wondering about the following:

* Will there be any (audible) loss in audio quality if I set the output to fixed 96Khz & high resample quality, compared to Audio Passtrough for DTS/DTS-HD/TrueHD & AC3?
* How many bit (16/24/32?) is the output with the above mentioned setting?

The dropouts seem to disappear with this setting.

Setup:

* HTPC with Asrock Q1900M mainboard
* Hooked up to a Marantz SR6008 receiver through HDMI

[FernetMenta]

"fixed" is for AVRs that need ages to change config. If you don't use "fixed" the output configures closes to the config of the source.

[TFHfony]

Well, I guess my AVR is indeed one of these "slower" types ;-)
Anyone who can answer my questions regarding soundquality and bit-depth?

[fritsch]

What do your ears say? Output depends on the available formats. On your intel hw most likely a 32 bit format is used (Debug Log has it) ... which can ship every common format without quality loss.

But your ears are the important thing here ...