This is confusing to me! Meridian offer S/P-DIF outputs to connect (for exsample) 800/861 or 596/568. Refering to an artical it is meansioned that the S/P-DIF outputs are rather bad.

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Duncan emphasized that upsampling could not create new information. Instead, he said that it alters the jitter characteristics of the digital receiver (eg. the DAC) in a favorable way because the S/P-DIF format was so bad. Duncan didn't mention that this was predicted by Malcolm Hawksford in a paper written years earlier. I expressed surprise at this reason given that Meridian goes through great lengths to suppress jitter, and he expressed his disappointment in the S/P-DIF format in his one-word response,"unfortunately".

What does this mean for those sources without upsampling like the 596? The ultra low digital jitter is useless because the weakest point of the chain is the S/P-DIF format?

Hmmm, any comments on this issue?