Quote: Good question, is the jitter rejection on the dac1 sufficient for the trends UD-10. Who knows that answer, probably no-one!   Maybe best to leave off until the dust settles as standards are still quite new.      

Thecus N2100 + mpd here.   Since I dont resample anything, I've never seen > 15% cpu usage. MPD also works fine on a 266mhz arm NSLU2.   No point having a big power hungry machine to do the job of playing a few flac files.      

Quote: That is exactly my setup. MPD > usb convertor > benchmark dac1.   The issue I have with being forced into 24bit samples is software trust. I know if I play a 16/44.1 flac into the trends, what goes in comes out. Ie it appears to be bit perfect.   I've looked at the mpd...

REF : linux support above.   Can someone confirm a few points for me   1) Output bitrate relative to input - ie is what you put in, what you get out? ie 16/44.1 in... 16/44.1 out 2) Are any output formats dithered in any way (ie internally in the card) 3) Does it only support 24 bit...