Your last sentence got me puzzled. Are you using easydcp or opendcp?
To my knowledge the two colorspaces you are talking about are almost identical so that could be why your seeing such good results with those settings.
Furthermore I also tested Resolve’s various outputs and also concluded that it doesn’t do a proper rgb to xyz conversion for DCP usage.
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