Interesting review (now that I've actually read it). Lots of brownie points to the team from Huntingdon...

Regarding the 150 MIPS chip, I noted that it is used to upsample (and apodize) to 88.2kHz for the digital outputs, and is also required to upsample the 88.2kHz (conventionally) to 176.4kHz for the internal DACs. These would seem to be separate operations (I can't see how they could be combined), so apodizing a stereo signal will require considerably less than 150 MIPS.

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