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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4217 CLOS FIXE maj Sisyphus gnome2-m ktirf pilot gnome-sound-recorder crashes by default

File a new bug in the "gnome2-media-grecord" component of the "Sisyphus" product