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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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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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OP: I’m speaking about the choice of transports. From your original post, I gathered you intend to keep the Jay’s Audio DAC.
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celander:

That's right, Sir. I like the Jay's Audio DAC, and also the Denafrips Pontus. They stay in my system[s].
The OP was all about the choice of a transport: putatively inferior NOS- and OS-capable [Nuprime] that I already have or putatively superior strictly NOS-capable [Jay's Audio] that I am contemplating buying.
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I owned the NANO transport.  For the $400 bucks I paid for the new unit, it was not embarrassed by my favorite transport the Audiomeca.  It was excellent for $400.  The different samples had an improvement but not worth worrying about.  I am hopefully going to compare the Jays audio transport to a Rega and CEC next month and I will post my findings again.  This time it will be in another persons system versus my own.

Happy Listening.
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That is very illuminating, bigkidz.

Would it be possible to characterize the improvement that you detected in the OS output over the NOS output of the NANO? 

Does either the Rega or the CEC OS? That would provide a useful base of comparison with the Jay's Audio transport?  If so, the exercise would directly address my concern in the OP.



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