It seems like bypassing the APIs which might screw up the audio with downsampling, and something like this is what the OP needed: https://www.audioquest.com/da

It seems like bypassing the APIs which might screw up the audio with downsampling, and something like this is what the OP needed: https://www.audioquest.com/dacs/dragonfly/dragonfly-black https://www.audioquest.com/dacs/dragonfly/dragonfly-black Edit: would work out of the box with the Eee PC he has as well.