JAY'S Audio CDT-3-MK2 or PS Audio DirectStream Memory Player


Looking for a CD transport. I will be playing redbook CDs only and would be using the SPDIF output to my DAC. 
I was thinking to get the JAY'S Audio transport, but now that PS Audio discounted their DirectStream Memory Player, I can't decide between the two. Has anyone compared those two?
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@snopro you've already heard/owned the brand new (2021) MK3? Did you also happen to hear the MK2 from the past couple years? 

Also the person with the Jays Audio transport I believe also owned a PS Audio transport so maybe he will comment on the differences between those two transports.

Now that would be some useful info!
Maybe you could coax this member to comment... 
@wig , or anyone else, is the CD2 MK2 warm or thick in any way, that in turn, translates to any level of lack of detail? You know, the trade off with warmth sometimes masking detail or loss of openness (air/space) to the sound? I’d like a new transport to replace a PS Audio PWT but would prefer a ‘normal’ neutral and open at the source. I think I remember reading back when this one came out, that it leaned to warm and full bodied?? Also read people preferring the Denafrips transport for this reason, but that one has not been available for many months... Maybe this is what the new MK3 changes are going for. 
@wig , thanks, great info for me and that that you switched from the same PWT.