Antijitter

I agree with Eldragon. Unless you are making the last change you are ever going to make (yeah right!), adding an anti-jitter device can be poor economics. What if your next move is a one box player, or the top-of-line Theta combination, or a new format? Either way you will have to get rid of the Jitterbug. Anti-jitter devices do work. I once enjoyed very good results with a DIP in between a CAL Alpha and CAL Delta. But I now have the top-of-line Theta two-box and neither the DIP or the SF Ultra Jitter Bug are remotely up to it (which makes me wonder if the Jitterbug is up to your Theta combo either). Remember that a jitter device only does the job that a decent player (whether one box or two) should have done in the first place - which makes the jitter device a band-aid. IMHO it is much better to look to upgrade your CD combination.

Hi Garfish. I am definitely a believer in spending on a good transport, to the extent that I find it much harder to find a transport that I am happy with, than I do with DACs. Even with a jitter reducer in place, changes in transport or the cable connecting the transport to the jitter reducer are quite audible. In fact I reckon CD sound is very let down by today's transports. The Phillips transports found in most CD players and Transports only sound good for a few months and then deteriorate badly - to the extent that I recommend having them overhauled about every 12 to 18 months. Have a look at them and you will notice the cheap crappy plastic parts and the tiny wee bearing. You will hear the difference quite markedly when it comes back from the service shop. For that reason I am a believer in the Theta transports that are based on the laser disk players (but do not play laser disks on them as you will stress the motor's bearing too much), and the various players that are based on the excellent TEAC VRDS transport (as is used by Wadia). The higher priced Pioneer stable platter transport mechanism is OK too, but not all of the stable platter mechanisms are well made.