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Bel Canto USB Link 24/96 vs Empirical off ramp 3

Anyone have any experience with both or either of them?
Need to connect my MacBook Pro to my ARC Dac7 USB input to play 24/96 HD Tracks. USB input on this DAC is limited to 16/48.
Bel Canto is $495.00
Empirical is $699.00 but with all the "add ons" it can make the price prohibitive particularly the Superclock or Ultraclock added to it.

Any comments welcomed.
smoffatt

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I think the Ramp 3 doesn't upsample the source signal.
"The Off-Ramp 3 supports sample-rates of up to 24/96 and automatically generates 24/44.1 from 16/44.1"
So if its redbook, it just add 8 more zeros at the end to be 24bits to be 24/44.1.
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