Audio MIDI Setup on OS X (10.8.5)

So there’s this application tucked away in Applications > Utilities on OS X called Audio MIDI Setup. You should try changing the source format from 44100Hz to 96000Hz and 24-bit Integer to 32-bit Float while listening to high quality audio on your headphones. It’s like (almost literally?) dialing it up to 11.

It is truly the secret sound manager on the Mac that I never knew about until recently. Having just ordered a NuForce DAC-80, the Audio MIDI Setup is just the thing I’d need to get the most out of it.