Pathos2, welcome and congrats on the Cutest. I have had mine for about a year now and leave it on all the time with no issues. Also contrary to the instructions, I found if you unplug it for any length of time, it re-boots back to its default settings. So your output levels, and filter settings need to be reset.
As far as the sampling rate indicator, I only stream with mine but find that it always shows 44k/Red, but mine is only used with the Bluesound Node and I think the Node only outputs 44.1, as even when I use Sonos optical out to the Bluesound then to the Cutest, for Pandora only, it still shows Red. I cannot find anywhere on the Bluesound if it upconverts everything to 44.1 or not.
As far as as SACD, I don’t think any player will digitally output anything above 44.1 or at least my players don’t. I think they set that as a copy protection default.
As far as the sampling rate indicator, I only stream with mine but find that it always shows 44k/Red, but mine is only used with the Bluesound Node and I think the Node only outputs 44.1, as even when I use Sonos optical out to the Bluesound then to the Cutest, for Pandora only, it still shows Red. I cannot find anywhere on the Bluesound if it upconverts everything to 44.1 or not.
As far as as SACD, I don’t think any player will digitally output anything above 44.1 or at least my players don’t. I think they set that as a copy protection default.