As usual, Sugarbrie is correct! Your transport/player needs to have an "upsampler" to output anything above 44.1K when playing a standard (redbook) CD.
Interestingly, my Cary CD-308 is an "upsampling" player and outputs a 24/96 signal at the digital out when set to the upsampling mode. I was surprised that the upsampling was done at the "transport" level and not in the DAC(analog) section.
BTW, my Birdland Odeon Lite DAC sounds much better (to my ear) when feed a 24/96K signal.
Enjoy,
TIC
Interestingly, my Cary CD-308 is an "upsampling" player and outputs a 24/96 signal at the digital out when set to the upsampling mode. I was surprised that the upsampling was done at the "transport" level and not in the DAC(analog) section.
BTW, my Birdland Odeon Lite DAC sounds much better (to my ear) when feed a 24/96K signal.
Enjoy,
TIC