Phantom Gold doesn't support 192/24, surprising answer from support??

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From reading many posts here in the forum and all so over in the Roon forum there are a number of things happening, depending on the different versions of Phantoms. The Phantom Golds of the first years 2016 to maybe 2019 accept through the optical input 24/192k. Phantom Silver and White Phantoms also accepted 24/192k. The Phantom Premier Classic replaced then the White Phantoms and the Silver Phantoms were not offered anymore, except for refurbished ones. We heard from a number of people with newer Phantoms Premier and lately also from Phantom Gold users that the optical only accepts 24/96k, same as the optical input from the Dialog. This probably has to do with lowers spect components. Since optical in general is originally specified to 24/96k by Sony the higher resolution only can be achieved with a careful design and better optical components/connectors. That’s where there can be a bottleneck in the latest Phantoms on the hardware. The Phantom Reactors were from beginning specified to 24/96k. Now Phantom Premiers (Gold and Classic) are Phantom I and Phantom Reactors are Phantom II. That they only accept 24/48k has to do with downsampling and not with the optical input electronics. Therefore we could assume that the direct optical mode plays at least 24/96k or even 24/192k. The internal DAQ of the Phantoms is a TI chip that can handle 24/192k PCM, as almost all DAQs can. It wouldn’t make any sense for Devialet not to continue to build in the current TI chip but an inferior chip as they are dead cheap. And why should they invest into making a different design only to disappoint their customers? I’m very sure that the specs limitation has to do with quality of service of wireless networks and therefore is related to software.