I was about to reply that locking onto the sampling frequency is the same as locking onto the clock, but I guess it's possible that it could do the former and not the latter. However, it would seem a little silly to do the former and not the latter, since you could just select the sampling freq anyways - I guess it would make sense if you wanted to use some weird sampling freq that is not one of the std presets, but that must be so infrequent that I don't see why you'd design a piece of gear like this to do that. So I still believe that it will sync to the V3 signal, but I guess that should be counted as opinion and not fact at this point
First, as I read it, the DMIC-20, is only twenty bit, no matter what the incoming signal is. Nothing is going to make it 16 or 24 bit. Second, the sample rate on the DMICs are fixed. You can buy a 44.1 or a 48 KHz DMIC-24, but they are otherwise not selectable, except apparantly, by using the AES input, which seems to only lock the sample rate, at between 30-50 KHz. As far as I can tell, this is like DAT decks synching up, and automatically adjusting the the sample rate of the lead deck. If wordclock was in all signals, and were as easy to send and synch, then why don't we see it on anything but the most high-end gear? And from what I have seen, the wordclock in/outputs are dedicated solely to the clock function, and the audio signal is sent through another cable. Let's wait to see the response to the second e-mail, which appears to clarify what is being asked. Actually, the first e-mail had the question right, I just think that GP's response was a non-answer.