Current Opinions of Jays Audio CDT2-MkII Transport

[maxim]

Hi Martin,

My experience is the same as yours, please see my recent post linked below with more info. Ted provided a detailed technical response.

I ended up using I2S connection between Jay’s CDT and PS Audio DAC, and most of my cds sound great - except those that I believe were badly recorded.

I wonder how do you find out that a CD has preemphasis if it is not identified correctly by your system.

Maxim

Preemphasis and Direct Stream DAC

I started paying attention to the preemphasis icon (PEI) in the top left corner of the display (under the “gear” icon) of my DAC and I am concerned with what I hear. I get PEI when I play/stream 44.1/16 files through USB input (via Optical Rendu); and when I play CDs on my Jay’s CDT and use AES/EBU link to DAC w/o upsampling. I don’t get PEI when I play/stream hi-rez files or have Roon upsample 44.1/16 files to 88.2 or 176.4; when I use I2S connection from CDT to DAC; or when I program CDT to …