Tonality of Jay's Transport?

I just got my Jay’s CDT2-Mk3. It’s built like a tank and is quiet. I don’t think it ads any color to the sound that I can tell. But there is a lot of factors at work here. Not just the transport. For me so far I am either playing direct via I2S/HDMI to my Terminator Plus or via SPDIF to a GAIA DDC then via I2S to the Terminator Plus to my amp(s). I can tell you that I am happy with this unit and the excellent support from Alvin Chee at Vinshine Audio. 

@jaymark 

Post of the week.  Very well said IMO!

Just a couple of additional observation with my unit.

After upgrading my unit to Mk3, the transport sounded dull and two dimensional the first 100 hour. However it opened up after an extensive burn-in with XLO disc track #8. During burn-in, the top end harden up with a touch of grain, the midrange was flat, and bottom was somewhat bloated. But do be patience and hold off your judgement until you have at least 500hrs on the Jay. In my humble opinion, it will take a high-rez system to fully exploit the capability of this transport. The Jay sounds rich and full of detail, dynamic and transparent. Staging and imaging is outstanding and outweighs transports twice it’s price. Comparing to my resident Esoteric, the Jay is more articulate and musical. Where the stage depth isn’t as deep as the sterile Eso, but overall presentation is more three dimensional. However, be prepared to reposition your speakers as the system will gain low end extension and weight. If not tended to, it may excite room nodes you didn’t realize existed. Now that my Jay is burned in, it will only take an hours of playing to weak up. 

@mosler666 

What Esoteric unit are you currently using?  Some have described this brand's digital components sonic signature as leaning toward analytical and sterile while others say this is simply transparency and neutrality. Different opinions and experiences as one would expect. 

I've read that the current generation of Esoteric digital components are more organic and less sterile.  No doubt as alluded to in above posts, this is very much audio system and listener preference dependant. I'm not at all surprised that you're 'very happy with the Jay's Audio CDT2 MK III transport. This certainly would have been my choice if not for the existence of the Pro-Ject CD Box RS2T.

Terrific options are available for those of us who love spinning Redbook CD playback. 

Charles 

@mosler666 

Thanks very much for your comments, including the warning about its sound prior to burn in.

I don't have much flexibility in terms of speaker placement so I hope that's not going to be a sticking point. This is not an issue I've encountered in reviews of this unit or other transport threads here. Don't mean in any way to refute what you say-- only to say your observations in this regard are unexpected. 

Not sure how you define hi-rez. My Hegel integrated is pretty resolving but no-one would likely describe my my Aqua DAC as "analytical".