Hey y'all - sorry to hear your ongoing issues are unresolved. Can someone summarize succinctly the 2 issues -
@music_man and
@cygnusx - are experiencing?
My issue -
pop/ticks at DSF/DFF track boundaries - is, I think, a different one, which has not been resolved, but there are strong indications that it's an artifact of extraction tools like sacd-ripper (sacd_extract), and not the HW.
I did a comparison of the same piece of music ripped from ISO vs purchased online (CDnow), and found no pops/ticks on the purchased version. See my post here: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/sacd-iso-dsf-no-clicks-23588/index3.html#post562682
It is still true that some DAC and/or streamers seem to handle this better than others. Still, Ayre's position, and I agree with them, is that they cannot devote resources to issues with the source, especially when it involves open-source tools used to extract content.
I've decided I can live with the slight ticks. I have relatively few albums where tracks flow into each other - in my case, mostly Mahler symphonies! - so for these, I can rip the entire disc as a single DFF file, and convert to DSF manually to tag.
Life on the bleeding edge, eh!