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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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itzhak1969
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"I came away with the same conclusion and suspect it’s high jitter output as the basis for that conclusion. The Jay’s Audio CDT2 MK2 is extraordinary in its presentation of Redbook audio discs. Not surprisingly, it has very low jitter."

@celander 

You are absolutely correct entry level transports usually have high jitter this is why most of them are terrible.my Simaudio 260T is much better than my previous Cambridge CXC transport the sound is more musical, effortless , detailed and 'analog' most likely because the 260T has very low jitter.
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celander
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OP: You are the only one who can answer your questions to your satisfaction and finality. The feedback of others has little value because their system will differ from your system. Just buy the Jay’s Audio transport and evaluate it in your system. If you’re in the US, then you should speak with Mike Powell, who is the US distributor/dealer for Jay’s Audio products. Mike offers a money-back guarantee or store credit if you don’t like the Jay’s Audio transport.

I see you’re in Canada. Mike might cover Canada. Give him a call to ask. 
rird
91 posts
 
Interesting claims that CDT-8 Pro have high jitter.
According to Nuprime, it's quite the opposite
rird
91 posts
 
Before you argue for crazy upsampling rates on red book cds...

I have my transport set at upsamling OFF.
I have noted that all forced upsampling just make it sounds unnatural.
I have my transport decoupled (floating) /discs of silenece on solid oak platform. Under transport i use black diamong racing mk4 pucks and cones. My dac is on a more solid base. Entreq feets, solid oak platform, on that i have SSC (string suspension concept) platform and transport on black diamond racing mk3 pucks and cones.

If i for instance change discs of silence to SSC feets, it sounds way way different. If you should deem cables, transports and very much upsampling, i hope you got your machines on something that rid them of external vibrations and more current.

rird
91 posts
 
Just buy the Jay transport if you have the money over Nuprime 8.
I have Nuprime Evo dac and CDT 8 Pro.
I don't think you should get all crazy over NOS or OS.
I don't think it sounds better with upsampling.
I have noted it also becomes more of edge. 
The most natural is leaving both units upsampling off if you have very resolving cables in your system. If you tweak it with less resolving cables, maybe you prefer a higher sampling rate!?

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