The older Surface 2 can play at 192kHz

In the 192kHz article I recently mentioned that Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 with it’s ALC288 codec would max out at 48kHz. Turns out the Surface Pro 2 uses a ALC280 that surprisingly supports up to 192kHz. WTH?

/proc/asound/card1# grep rate codec#0
rates [0×5f0]: 32000 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000
rates [0×560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
rates [0×560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
rates [0×5f0]: 32000 44100 48000 88200 96000 192000
rates [0×560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
rates [0×560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000

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