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| JAYS Audio transport upgrade? My G-d what a beautiful system Don! Wow, nicely done :) I’m kinda drooling here :p A Mojo DAC, I met Ben at Axpona a couple of years back; he was using a Jay’s CDT3 to demo his DACs(!) What more can you say for endorsement? In fact he was one of t... | |
| JAYS Audio transport upgrade? Thanks for the very kind words fellas :) At heart I’m just a long time fellow hard core audiophile as well, starting this journey with a nice Linn LP12/Naim system in the mid 80’s :) And @Don you are right about the mechanism cost, it is much hig... | |
| JAYS Audio transport upgrade? @larseand, please check your email spam folder. Thanks, TK | |
| JAYS Audio transport upgrade? And to the OP I have shared my phone with you there and we can discuss. Thanks TK | |
| JAYS Audio transport upgrade? Yes, the CDT3 is in fact one of the best sounding sources available at any price. Just the truth. The CDT2 is quite good, but the CDT3 is audibly better still. Part of that must be the CLK and its PSU, it is one of the finest they can produce and ... | |
| Use of Denafrips Iris 12th DDC with computer To the OP, this is how I use my system daily. A laptop USB -> to a Gaia DDC, then out via I2S (or coax) to DAC. It works quite well. Of course when you use a PC, for best results you MUST have it where the OS doesn’t mess with the output. For ... | |
| Jay’s Audio CD Transport @no_regrets the CDT2 has a nice CLK, but the whole top R 3rd of the CDT3 is CLK and its PSU. It’s very a serious audio effort to make the best CLK they can for it. And I think that is a large part of the improvement, but not all. Additionally, t... | |
| Jay’s Audio CD Transport Just sharing an anecdotal story, a few years back I needed to audition several Focal speakers. Thankfully we have a Focal/Naim store in my area (great store). But I kinda knew I that I would need to have the best possible source to really hear the... | |
| Jay’s Audio CD Transport Hi Don. We didn't try the master CLK with the CDT2 but I assume it might have some slight benefit from it. The CDT3 has about the best CLK already, assume that is why no gain from the master CLK. In my system I generally use a Gaia DDC, which als... | |
| Jay’s Audio CD Transport Yes it is true, the CDT2 is a great sounding CDT. But the CDT3 is in fact one of the best sounding sources available at any price. Never thought I'd say that about a Redbook format device, but it is what it is. Speaking as a fellow audiophile we h... | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords One aspect that is highly significant, it also matters how the power is done internally to the component you're using. With a conventional unregulated linear PSU in say, a typical power amp for example you can generally hear effects of fuses, powe... | |
| Speaker Cables : Moderate priced Take a look please at the Audience AU24SX, great sounding cables, priced reasonably. https://www.tekaudiospecialties.com/audience TK | |
| Why do I prefer R2R over Chip based DAC's? Much of what goes wrong in a DAC occurs after the DAC portion itself. For example, a datasheet implementation of an industrial op amp I/V/LPF/buffer. The DAC will never achieve better than that limitation. Industrial OA are relatively easy to use ... | |
| Passive preamps - differences between technologies Yes, the Hattor passive with discrete shunt attenuator is quite good. I have/had 2 of them, the pure passive and the dual mono buffered. The buffered version requires some discrete OA rolling to get the best results (of course). Industrial OA just... | |
| Modding the PS Audio Directstream DAC MK1 and MK2 Some other news, this summer I was able to get Tom C of Neurochrome Audio to do a special version of his Modulus "error correcting" amp boards (thanks Tom!). Notably, we eliminated the OA input buffer, and the input coupling cap (and feedback cap!... |