Which transport with my Jay's Audio DAC?

The differences are not substantial but here goes.  The 44 was the most musical so I call it hearing the wood of the instrument like stand up bass or piano.  The other settings offered a little more detail and more resolution but it is only slightly over the 44 setting.  But you tend to miss the wood on the instruments so it sounds a little faster because the notes do not decay as slowly therefore the wood sound is missing, again slightly.  I used the NANO to demonstrate my DAC when I took it to someones home to hear.  It was not embarrassed by any means as a transport.  If you only had the funds for a really good DAC and you can get a Nano cheap in the meantime, then get the Nano.  Later it can be used a s a back-up and it takes up no space at all.  PLUS you can upgraded the power supply for a slight improvement also from the tiny little wall wart.

The Rega and CEC do not OS.  The Rega is interesting because it really sounded good as a transport.  I don't remember the differences between the Nano and Rega.  My friend who had them in his system preferred the CEC TL5100Z used as a transport by a lot over the Rega.  He prefers his sound musical over non-musical think tubes vs. SS.  BUT again, the Rega sounded very good with our DAC which is a TUBE DAC.  My friend has a Musical Fidelity (M-1 model??) which I modified with upgraded resistors, filter choke and V-Cap capacitors.  It sounds pretty good unless you compare to our DAC, then it gets wiped out completely.

I am hoping to do the comparison again in another members system next month but to a better or higher priced CEC dedicated transport.  Then I will know for sure if the claims that the Jays is as good or better than that model CEC.

Happy Listening. 
    

Many thanks, bigkidz, for an illuminating comparison.

Especially helpful was your association, respectively, of
.....the NOS with a kind of musicality that yields the "texture and timbre" of certain instruments, and
.....the OS with increased resolution and detail.

I shall now do another comparison of the NOS and OS outputs of the Nuprime transport with your listening impressions in mind... or in ear.

@zimmerma - we did no prefer the Nuprime as a transport. We felt that that one in particular was very open with nice details but it was one of the transports that lot the musicality.  It was an interesting unit though. The details it presented at first listen sounded very natural until we all go a handle on the sound.  BUT it all comes down to your system and what you prefer not mine or anybody else's tastes.  Go with what you like.  And you only can understand and learn the differences in comparison in your system.  You don't know what you have not experienced yet.  It is that simple.  My DAC is a Directed Heated Triode Tube design.  I would bet that no person hear has heard a DHT product.

Again, Happy Listening  

Bigkidz likes a musical transport over an analytical one. And he didn’t like the CDT-8 Pro because it was not musical. I came away with the same conclusion and suspect it’s high jitter output as the basis for that conclusion. The Jay’s Audio CDT2 MK2 is extraordinary in its presentation of Redbook audio discs. Not surprisingly, it has very low jitter.

if you are waiting on a clear cut yes or no answer you'll be waiting until the cows come home.  you would think the jay's  dac and cdt were made to go together so s_ it or get off the pot and make a choice.