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1. Yes 2. No Sent from my iPad using Computer Audiophile

No that's D16 AES. Sent from my iPad using Computer Audiophile

I didn't have a firmware update. It said it saw new firmware, but the update didn't apply any new firmware. My current firmware, after update, is 2.14.1425 Sent from my iPad using Computer Audiophile

Only one opinion and not 'THE ALLMIGHTY TRUTH'. So YMMV, as always. Sent from my iPad using Computer Audiophile

Hm, all looks OK. The last thing I can think of. You do playback a supported format/sample rate? So PCM max 192kHz and DSD or DoP with DSD64, DSD128, DSD256 or DoP64, DoP128 and the proper DoP marker 0x05 and 0xFA? No recent updates of software that may have changed those settings?

What Mode is your device set to? (First column indicator) Did you try a different USB cable?

It can also be the microrendu not / no longer giving out a decent and stable SPDIF signal causing the Mutec not being able to get a stable lock on the SPDIF audio signal.

MC-3 does not change sample rates. So sample rate in is sample rate out.

There is a well know site that collects data on the performance of SRC software: SRC Comparisons If you select the XISRC and SOX VHQ Linear Phase you see with the Passband and the Transition measurements, that Sox performs clearly better.

Sox is the better SRC software compared to XISRC, and free

The distributor for the US is Sonic Distribution and they have some dealers on their webpage: Sonic Distribution - USA

I believe it is at least dsd256, and they will try dsd512 but will only release it when it actually sounds better than dsd256. Dsd512 is apparently very difficult to do right due to clock requirements and oscilators for dsd512 that are much worse than those needed for dsd256.

Yes, in the example above, the Antelope would be the single master word clock for the whole audio chain. So all devices would get their word clock from the Antelope. And to give the Antelope an even better Reference clock than what it is using internally, you can add the Cybershaft to the Antelope via a single connection. This not guaranteed to give better results as it depends on the implementation of the Antelope and indeed the difference in quality between Cybershaft reference clock and Antelope internal clock.

I Think you are mixing up word clock generators and 10 MHz reference clocks. The single purpose of a 10 MHz reference clock is to offer a more stabel clock signal to a word clock generator. So 10MHz --> Antelope LiveClock and then using two word clock outputs --> RedNet --> Mutec is the standard way of using a 10 MHz clock in an audio chain. Because the Mutec is a Word Clock generator in itself, it can also accept a 10 MHz input, but apparaently the Antelope LiveClock is a better word clock generator than the internal one of the Mutec

IMHO only this mrWicked build is going to be an "off the shelf" product. The other Oppo etc solution is just another type of PS3 solution limited to MT8560 chipsets.