Respectfully, I’m not sure what “game on” means? Stereophile have measured the DS.
JA’s Stereophile jitter measurements of the DS actually raised my eyebrows…
So I asked @tedsmith about it and he clarified and shared his own measurements. I was happy with that and moved on.
See here: Stereophile's DS jitter measurements
The lesson there is to not take 3rd party measurements as final and absolute, even if the person doing the measurements knows what they are doing…
Fortunately Ted is very approachable here and very transparent. I’m not sure if the Engineer/s of Sprout are as easily reachable and as publicly transparent and would share PS Audio’s internal measurements?
There aren’t many like Ted. I can think of Rob Watts who is similar and maybe just one other. They are a rare breed that are happy to be publicly transparent about almost anything.
At the same time, I would still love to see ASR measure the DS, with latest firmware. It would provide another datapoint and maybe some interesting discussion along with it.