Getting 96/24 to work from pioneer DV09

Unfortunatly, you need to go to the setup menu to switch to 24/96. I think it defaults to 20/48.

Your recording is Digital recorded, Analog mixed, Digital mastered to Redbook standard so the PCM output is 44.1kHz fixed. Unless you have an upsampling box DAC then what you hear is just plain old CD music from a highend DVD player.

Even if you have an "upsampling box" when you are playing CDs you are always listening to 16 bit / 44.1 kHz material. If you are playing DVDs then the available sample rates are either 48 kHz or 96 kHz for this player (with either 16, 20 or 24 bit samples). Assuming non-protected material, the data is available in its "full" form if your player is properly enabled.