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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ID Status Resolution Sev Product Comp Assignee Reporter▲ Summary
8709 CLOS FIXE nor Sisyphus xpenguin george lav /usr/share/xpenguins is not owned by any package
8710 CLOS DUPL nor Sisyphus xpenguin rider lav /usr/share/xpenguins is not owned by any package

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