First of all, congrats on the new acquisition. I'm sure your (APS or SAA- recabled?) RS-1 will sound great when the Gilmore arrives.
Originally Posted by chesebert
I am not sure if there is such thing as over-kill for transport, DAC1 is not really jitter immune, so better transport will usually translate into better sound.
While I tend to agree (though not from experience) that better transport will translate into better sound, I thought the DAC1 is advertised to be virtually immune to jitter. Benchmark posted graphs on Head-Fi and on their website showing how even artificially introduced jitter bore little impact on the
measurable performance of the DAC1. This leads me to think that jitter is only one of the aspects which may contribute to (or indeed take away from) listener pleasure, and used almost too often as a scapegoat for everything and anything not right about the sound. "Ah it must be jitter!"
