Interesting point Lalik but wrong, the Innuous Statement has two high performance digital outputs"
1: USB digital output with a special ultra high performance usb card
2: Ethernet which is a filtered, repacketed and cleaned up high performance digital output for streaming dacs
The reality is that more digital inputs create the possibility of more noise flowing into the product.
The other part of the equation is if you are buying an expensive server to play and store music having older legacy inputs, that you will never use, that can not support DSD, MQA, or high resolution PCM is of dubious utility.
Innuous cares about making the best sounding servers, that people will use with modern high end dacs, in the case of a modern high performance dac, personally, we can’t remember a single time when we wanted to use a toslink or spdif connection.
Other than playing a legacy CD from a CD transport most people are storing their digital which is why they are purchasing the unit in the first place.
The Innuos products allow for an easy and convienient digital rip, as all of the Innuous servers have a CD ripper built right in the front of the machine. The entire purpose of the Statement is to be a fantastic high quality CD library, Roon Core and Tidal streamer and CD ripper so why would you want to play anything else on it?
The Statement does that job extremely well and sounds insanly good.
As per Antipodes vs the Statement we have spoken to dealers who have previously sold the Antipodes they have moved over to the Statement.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Innuos Dealers