New Jays Audio flagship cd transport

So did the Pavane work with I2S to the CDT3 after all?

I just got a Jay’s Audio CDT3-MK3. It arrived yesterday. Out of the box, it’s by far the best CD transport I have ever had. And I have have been spinning CDs on dedicated CD transports and players for 20+ years. Some of them at more than double the price, and several years ago (in those day’s prices). 
 

Fantastic service from Todd @tekaudiospecialties1 ! And the guys in Singapore. It took three business days to arrive from China (yeah, China) via FedEx. It takes longer to get stuff from California or Texas (to East Coast US)

Someone besides PS Audio needs to come out with a reasonably priced and robust CD/SACD transport that will be flexible enough to use a multitude of DAC's.

Thyname, thank you for the kind words. And I agree, actually the CDT3 is proving to be one of the best sounding sources available at any price. Kind of hard to comprehend, especially for a Redbook format, but true story.

Mojo Audio uses a CDT3 to demo their DACs as well, for example. I met them at Axpona '22 and enjoyed talking with Ben very much. They had one of the first CDT3 in the US at the time there for the demo; I have a picture of that around here somewhere.. Ben has a very good ear it seems ;)

Speaking of, I happen to have a Mojo Mystique X DAC in house currently and have to say, I am really liking what I hear from it as well. Bravo Mojo! TK

Upsampling on a CDT2? I did not know that was available. Not sure if I would use it, but it seems to be worth a try. I have the CDT2-MK3. I’ll have to take a closer look at my remote.

Have any of you played with this? Is there any further discussion about this somewhere?

I’ve tried the upsampling with my CDT2-MK3 but I’m using the transport with a Chord Qutest. It automatically upsamples 44.1 and I prefer to let it do what it is designed to do.

But, that said, I haven’t extensively listened to it with upsampling turned on. Just a song or two back to back with it off. It didn’t harm anything. But I didn’t hear an improvement in this limited session.

I need to spend more time listening to have a firm opinion.

You simply click the "Program" button on the remote to toggle between upsampling and no upsampling.