Personally I find all this jitter talk FUD. I am pretty confident that any DIY solution to take the PCM stream made by the mentioned 'hardware guy' will blow away DTS easily.

Getting SPDIF from the HD-A1 is dead simple, just tap the signal before the DAC. We already located possible tappoints. I didn't say that we would tap the HDMI signal, since that is impossible due to the encryption.

And jitter on HDMI is no problem at all. As the receiver has clocked the signal into its memory, the data is recovered and any jitter is of no consequence whatsoever anymore.