I'm guessing that Meridian is confident that up-sampled audio (lower inherent jitter) + MHR encryption (minimizes correlated jitter in the xfer) + FIFO in the speaker is sufficient to lower jitter to inaudible levels in the DAC.

I'm also guessing that Meridian didn't want to introduce clocking which was linked between components and/or played it safe with their known technology.

Bear in mind that SpeakerLink was simply to meet a requirement from the custom install market to be able to utilize in-wall RJ45 cabling. Meridian didn't expect it to sound better than SPDIF - they put down any improvement to the improved encoding and decoding circuitry at either end of the link.

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