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Which transport with my Jay's Audio DAC?

Advice needed.
I currently have a Nuprime CDT 8 feeding a Jay's Audio DAC. The CDT 8 oversamples the  PCM signal incoming to the DAC, and does DSD.
I have followed the discussions of the Jay's Audio CDT2- Mk2 with interest, since it looks to be a transport superior to the Nuprime. However, it does not provide PCM oversampling or DSD; and I think that the Jay's DAC cannot oversample a signal on its own. [Can any DAC?]
The question, then, is which combination is likely to be the better: 1. The Nuprime transport and the Jay's Audio DAC or 2. The Jay's Audio transport and the Jay's Audio DAC? Does the presumed superiority of the Jay's Audio transport more than compensate for the OS-ing capacity of the Nuprime DAC? 
Or perhaps any question of preferring an OS-ing to a NOS-ing transport is simply a matter of taste, and not any sort of objective criterion for making a choice like this?
Any insights will be appreciated.

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zimmerma OP
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celander:
Thanks for a useful post. I have compared some of the OS settings on the CDT8 with its NOS setting, feeding the Jay's DAC.... To be honest, I cannot hear a bit of difference. More listening is called for.

Just to be clear: I already own the Jay's DAC, and have so since the OP.  So, I don't have "to make the decision to buy" it.

twoleftears [great tag!]:
I have been trying to get a straight and useful answer to that question since the OP. Not much luck....
Also to the question of how many DACs there are out there that can take a NOS signal from a transport and convert it onboard into an OS signal....No luck there either.
One would think that there are answers to these two simple hardware questions..
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"To be honest, I cannot hear a bit of difference. "

You said it by yourself !
As celander told you OS Seems like marketing hype absent such compelling reason .no more no less . Only If the original recording was recorded as hi-res or professional studio remastered the original recording to hi-res one
you will hear difference any other OS process is just marketing illusions. It’s remind me in the past everybody bought graphic equaliser because we thought it essential to the system just to figure out that it was nuncess almost nobody is buying GEQ today.
If you buy the Jay transport you will hear real improvement despite it’s NOS .If you will stick to the OS method it will lead you anywhere.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/what-a-week-jays-cd-transport-review-and-room-rearrangement.7...
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itazhak:
The first lines of your post make absolutely no sense.
I said: "To be honest, I cannot hear a bit of difference "--- That is, no difference in a comparison bt. the OS and the NOS inputs from my transport when processed by the Jay's Audio DAC that can deal with both.

Then you say: "You said it by yourself !" 

Said what? What do you think that I said?
I said that I could not hear a difference in a comparison bt. the OS and the NOS inputs from my transport. 
That would seem to be an argument AGAINST investing a lot more money in the Jay's transport.... NOT an argument in favour of the expenditure.
If I cannot hear the difference bt an OS and a NOS input.... then why buy the strictly NOS transport?

Sir, I do think that you one very big axe to grind.... against OS.
itzhak1969
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You really don't get it... Jay transport is high end transport that can really make substantial improvement Nuprime is entry level transport that is not at the same level as your transport it's like you are trying to move Cadillac car with Subaru engine don't you get it ???
Instead of trying to match the suitable transport to your dac you are messing with nuncess like OS vs. NOS transport.
This is is my last reply to you everybody here trying to help you but you keep repeating the same  nuncess about OS transport theory like it is a must for improvement sound ,if it was so
why Jay Audio didn't make OS transport ?
The simple answer is because they don't believe in it !
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Itazhak1969:

You've made it abundantly clear that you really can't take a point; it is equally clear that you really do not understand the point of the OP.

So, I too think that we have run out of reasons to continue our exchange here.

By all means, then, let us not continue to darken each other's Audiogon Forum doors again.
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