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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.

zimmerma
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zimmerma OP
102 posts
 
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.
bigkidz
3,416 posts
 
@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  
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celander
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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.
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mboldda1
575 posts
 
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.
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zimmerma OP
102 posts
 
I think that Ill s__t awhile longer, thanks.
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