How does a Transport effect sound?

The jitter effect of all of these "tweaks" can be measured.  Most of them make audible changes, but not that significant.

The best CD disk tweak is to apply a rubbery coating to the top of the CD to prevent vibration while spinning.  This is where the majority of the jitter comes from.

The best transport tweak is to use a reclocker.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

How abour MSB's Data CD? They seems to take care of both the "read until right" (CDROM drive and memory buffer) and ”jitter/timing" (proprietary I2S connection by using ethernet network connection) problems?

MSB's "Pro I2S interface" is a good implementation, along with being a "computer" CD transport.  This locates the Master Clock in the DAC rather than the transport.  The Transport has a PLL that synchronizes to the DAC Master Clock. 

This is the optimum way to do the CD transport protocol. dCS does a similar method, but not I2S.

I2S is really not necessary when using this scheme, but it simplifies the DAC to use it.  I also put I2S inputs and outputs on my products, as does PSAudio, but they don't do the Master Clock in the DAC like MSB and dCS, with a clock cable going from DAC back to the Transport.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio