Transport for DAC

Agree with Kijanki. Transport can matter but it depends on DAC. A good transport does not necessarily have to be expensive these days also.

I use the transport still in my Denon player with external DAC. The sound is essentially identical compared to same source material ripped to music server and streamed via Roku Soundbridge network player to the Paradisea DAC, which is not upsampling but still has good jitter suppression characteristics supposedly with most decent transports.

On a different topic, but for those who prefer a "more analog" sounding digital sound, I wonder if there is a tubed DAC out there with jitter control features that are in line with the Benchmark?

The Paradisea tube DAC supposedly reduces jitter as long as the jitter at the source does not exceed a certain tolerance as I understand it.

Not sure exactly how this works. Maybe someone can explain?

It is not the same thing as upsampling and reclocking as like the Benchmark though I am pretty certain.

Still, I have to say though that I cannot hear any clear defects or differences in the sound reproduction using either Roku Soundbridge or the Denon player's transport that I might attribute to jitter.