What is the benefit of a good transport?

It is my understanding that jitter can be dealt with at the transport level, the DAC level or both for that matter. A signal is passed, along with the ones and zeros, to the DAC and if the DAC is designed to reclock the signal, jitter is dealt with.

I am no expert either, so those with more knowledge than I feel free to correct me.

The DAC doesn't "know" the signal needs reclocked, if a DAC is designed to reclock it will do this every time. As noted before, the "clocking" information is sent via whatever connection you use, whether a DAC reclocks or not this is passed along. Also, as I am led to believe, doing it at the DAC level is a very good place to do so, addressing it as late as possible, just before the D/A conversion.

:) Now we are getting into areas where those with more knowledge will have to chime in; I suspect there may be a little more to the reading (transport) side of things, but how much, great question, hence the reason of the post. Also, the DAC must reclock the signal, not all do.