celander:
The first line of the OP still holds: "I currently have a Nuprime CDT 8 feeding a Jay's Audio DAC."
The first line of the OP still holds: "I currently have a Nuprime CDT 8 feeding a Jay's Audio DAC."
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.
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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Yeah, I just realize-read that line. In any event, you’ve already made the decision to buy a Jay’s Audio DAC. So the question is actually reduced quite a bit to the singular issue about whether a OS transport is better than a NOS transport. It seems to me that you can answer that question with your present setup. Just compare the SQ of your system with the CDT-8 Pro set in NOS mode vs. OS mode. If you prefer the SQ of your setup in OS, then the issue is settled. If you don’t, then get the Jay’s Audio CDT2 MK2 transport. |
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.. |
"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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