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*at the expense of disabling 10bit per channel color.

For most apps this should be fine, but as deep color gains more prominence be aware of impacts it may have.

Right, most people using audio applications probably don't really care about 10 bit color.

Not just at the expense of disabling 10bit per channel color, but at the expense of breaking color reproduction.

If you cared you could make an ICC profile representing an accurate characterization of the display, but limited to 8 bits/channel. I doubt the video game players who are focused on blitting the maximum number of textured triangles per second are too worried though.

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