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This is easy to blind test, get someone to change the sample rate from 16, 24, 32 bit see if you can spot when it was playing the native rate - native, non native & don't know. I clocked up mainly don't know...
Just for your reference, I have "historical" and "practical" reasons for sticking to "all in ASIO I/O" in my PC based multichannel audio system, as I posted here.
In addition to my post above cited, I assume my specific post on my project thread would be of your reference and interest in terms of sampling rate (and bit depth); - Summary of rationales for "on-the-fly (real-time)" conversion of all music tracks (including 1 bit DSD tracks) into 88.2 kHz or 96 kHz PCM format for DSP (XO/EQ) processing:#532