Is there a DAC in any of these components, Statement, Zenith, Zen? If not then you need to be cognizant of the DAC you use as some will reclock on all interfaces including USB so that would make the point of this reclocker moot.
Not surprising dpac996 most modern well implemented DAC’s have strenuous noise reduction and reclocking as the clock closest to the DAC chip will give the very best results. Even the $2000 Benchmark DAC 3 isolates then reclocks it has one of the best jitter reduction implementations with its UltraLock 3 used on all inputs. Another thing to remember about jitter if it has been put into the stream with an ADC nothing can resolve it and in your home network that digital stream is created by remodulation in your $120 modem.
Some of it has to do with the DAC but in asynchronous mode it’s more of a push- pull. I am only a bit familiar with the DAC I have the Benchmark DAC3B it will follow sample rate changes. So in this case it would follow the Phoenix but only until it reaches the buffer, once there the DAC3B master clock takes it to send to the conversion subsystem it is the second asynchronous transfer that eliminates jitter in the transfer from USB to the conversion subsystem. In my case the Phoenix is just a worthless extra component reclocking data from the streamer to simply be reclocked by the Benchmark, other DACs might do it different.
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