just to be a shit, I recorded the Bomb Squad Halloween show at Tammany Hall in Worcester MA using my laptop and my ua-5 in 24bit/96KHz mode. Thinking that it would convert the bit rate down to 48 K, I plugged the optical out of my UA-5 into my Nomad and hit record. It showed up as a 48 K WAV recording stream, and I figured I was all good. Then I noticed that the time elapsed clock on the nomad was running a little fast. TWICE as fast, in fact. The thing was actually recording the 96 KHz stream at half speed.
I listened to it later, and it was indeed V E R Y S L O W.... So I used Sound Forge and changed the sampling rate (without resampling) to 96 KHz and gods be praised, it was all there. No dropouts, no weirdness. Yes, it had truncated the signal to 16 Bits from 24, but you get that with a lot of digi-preamps anyway. It sounded great.
So... Does anyone else think this is a bad idea? Recording 96K with a nomad?