Really appreciating this Peyton Royce love lately ! She is gorgeous <| sep |> If we ' re talking about the same dude turns out it was mayonesa himself , which is pretty hilarious <| sep |> linux but seriously , it ' s all the same , as long as you know what you ' re doing . like in linux you need to make sure pulseaudio isn ' t resampling , or if it is , that it ' s using high quality src , or use JACK , and in windows you have to use ASIO or WASAPI . also , in all cases it ' s best to make sure you ' re not relying on your soundcard or DAC for resampling if it has a fixed sample rate and handle that in software . if your soundcard or DAC deals poorly with 0 db maxed out mastering a surprising amount of them , give it a bit of headroom by cutting 1 to 3 db in software before sending out your audio , and do that before resampling if applicable .