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Have transports improved for Redbook CD playback?

So I’m contemplating getting a new transport. I own an Oppo BDP-83SE player and a CAL Delta transport. I still use my transport and player for Redbook playback. 

Have transports improved for Redbook CD playback?
128x128celander
audioengr
3,282 posts
 
No jitter.

Not technically possible.  Any company that claims no jitter is FOS.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

brayeagle
362 posts
 
I'll agree. That was my input, not the manufacturer's.  

The BCD-3 has only 1 master clock  that controls both the transport and DAC rather than the DAC slaving to the usually inferior transport clock. 


audioengr
3,282 posts
 

DAC slaving to an inferior transport problem is eliminated with a Synchro-Mesh reclocker.


Steve N.

Empirical Audio

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celander OP
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The NuPrime CDT-8 Pro transport claims to have ultra low jitter. A NuPrime Support Manager reported by email to me that the CDT-8 Pro output circuit jitter measures at 120 psec. That’s not exactly ultra low jitter. Hell, my 20-year old CAL Delta transport has 50 psec jitter. 
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