I found that the hardware SRC was inferior to alsa's linear SRC which was inferior to mplayer's default SRC which was inferior to mplayer's resample fitler which was inferior to mplayer's lavcresample filter, which was still inferior to using an old Hollywood+ dvd decoder card purely for it's dolby certified SPDIF port.  ...
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30976 CLOS DUPL nor Sisyphus apt placeholder imz "apt-cache whatdepends" and "whatdepends" in apt-shell give different results

File a new bug in the "apt" component of the "Sisyphus" product