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@Altus

I don't pretend to know for sure, and am basing what I say on the public data on the Ultra, as interpreted in the light of a conversation about the SEs some time ago with someone involved in design at Meridian.

I believe the "output data rate" of 768kHz refers to something within the DAC. All signals would be presented to the DAC at 352/384kHz, with appropriate upsampling depending on origin. Then while the DAC is "doing its thing", a further step of upsampling occurs.

What the difference is between that and simply upsampling to 768, I don't know.

I assume that the upsampling pre-SE DSPs upsample to 96 which is then presented to the DACs. The DACs in the SE speakers are a whole nother thing (as we already knew by listening).

Happy to be corrected on any of this.