I haven't had time to thoroughly test on other soundcards, but I did figure out that there's another "symptom". Not sure if it's related to the topic of this post.
What happens is that every time the device samplerate changes, I hear a click (like a relay switching).
I'd say this is normal, except that the samplerate needlessly changes at random. For example, if I turn on the computer, and play songs from iTunes using the Orion, everything is fine - no clicks. BUT - if I open Logic, set the samplerate to 88.2k, and CLOSE Logic - the systemwide setting somehow remains set to 88.2k, and every time I play something from iTunes (or any other system sound plays) there is an audible CLICK before and after the sound. Also, I see in the Orion control panel these clicks correspond to the samplerate changing from 44.1k to 88.2k and back. I know it's maybe hard to understand, so here's a video.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/70hx018a69phel4/Samplerate%20error%202.mov?dl=0
I can see in AudioMIDI that after I've closed Logic, the Orion device samplerate remains at 88.2k. It's tedious to fix this every time manually + it might be related to my original problem. What do you guys think?