Clicking noise is not your fault, you didn't face it with your unit. You can't be blamed for this. You can't be blamed for anything - as you mentioned this is YOUR site (though it sounded a bit desperate), you don't force anyone to buy something or do anything, this is just great testing site and targeting/blaming the host is very stupid IMHO.
With all due respect to you and all your great job, only thing that irritated me was not putting 15,5 bit linearity test and poor toslink performance in the review. That would save me some money on shipping back the unit, because if I had seen this tests earlier I wouldn't have bought it. You can have full image of performance only when you go through the whole thread and finding it out instead of just having a look at the review itself. In my opinion this makes the review itself a bit incomplete or incoherent.
When yggdrasil achieved 16 bit linearity in one of your reviews, you commented it like this: "Same theme emerges here with the Gen 2 board not having as wild of variation/error as Gen 2. That said, this is unacceptable resolution and fidelity for a DAC. [...] If you play high-resolution audio, this DAC is not for you."
Reference link:
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ents-and-review-of-schiit-yggdrasil-dac.2358/
So it is hard to call this topping "highly performant" to listen only 16 bit files that it can barely play properly and make use of 16 bits. For me it's not a big deal beacuse 90% of my collection are 16 bit 44,1k files, but this is advertised as high-resolution audio dac. Eventually I will send this back and buy something that I know it sounds great by my ears. Will only check this out as extra DAC for future comparisons.