Originally Posted by George Mills
Also if all these arguments are to minmize jitter, I believe the later you decode (i.e. the longer you leave it as a packet based bitstream) the better.

So the decoding in M Player vs Non M Player vs Preamp seems to be conflicting information as time moves on to fit the solutions.
Decoding in M player has a potential advantage over non-M players as MHR transfer is a low jitter solution. This might be testable with a Shawn Fogg modded Oppo, for instance. However, that's on the assumption that all other things, including the decoding, are equal. I'm sure they are not.

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