More likely it’s that 48 kHz is a more sensible default, since the majority of non-music digital audio is sampled at 48 kHz, almost anyone who cares about potential audio artifacts introduced by resampling is going to be using an external DAC, and (from an Apple-centric viewpoint) almost anyone concerned about the energy consumption of music playback on their MacBook is going to listen to music on their iPhone instead.

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ryandrake an hour ago | parent [-]

Maybe this is a little pedantic, but we're not talking about a default among the many other available options supported by the chip. We're talking about 48 or 96 kHz being intentionally (or unintentionally) made the only allowed options.

So either someone said "we must disallow the other options" or they didn't and it's a bug.

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rasz 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

Imagine LCD screen capable of emitting from IR to UV and people up in arms because laptop vendor software limits output to visible spectrum.

	▲	ryandrake 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Come on, don't do that here. You can see in the thread I replied to there are practical benefits for supporting additional sampling rates.