I guess a lot depends on the design of the DAC itself. With an AKM/SABRE type chipset, where the internal clock is going to be crippled, a good quality external clock seems to make sense.
But with a discrete chipset, there is ample space for a good clock circuit - Ted Smith made a similar comment in designing the DirectStream (which definitely borrows a lot of ideas from Koch and Meitner).
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