Transports are NOT created equal due to differences in quality of the clocking, power supplies, and support circuitry.
-------> there are BIG differences in SQ amongst different transports
No argument here. The thing that makes all transports equal is a good reclocker added to the transport.
The things that make the jitter different from all of these transports is differences in the oscillators, power supplies, power delivery, implementation and design. It's the jitter that is different for these reasons.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio