Click the loudspeaker icon bottom right to open zone settings, then click the cog wheel in the pop up and you’ll see if volume leveling is turned on, which I’d bet it is…
It’s not strange. Roon does DSP in 64-bit floating point to avoid degradation due to math errors, so that explains 16->64. Then, the bit rate is reduced to whatever the DAC accepts (and the maximum set on that audio device), so that explains 64->24.
According to@mikeb, using Device Control in Roon, as it sounds like you’re doing now, is no different to using the KEF remote, as both simply pass a volume command to the LSX.