Advice sought on jitter, DACs, DSPâ€™s/Upsamplers and 96kHz

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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

Iâ€™m somewhat confused as to which mod upgrade path I should next take. My first attempt at an upgrade occurred 4 years ago with the addition of a Musical Fidelity X-24K DAC. I noticed a little difference to the sound. A deeper extended bass, and a definite deeper soundstage.
In the last month I modded my ageing Sony cdp502ES ll player with an Audiocom mk IV clock upgrade and replaced the capacitors/electrolytes with black gates. The resulting sound was truly remarkable to say the least. If the first upgrade was measured as a 10/10 then the new upgrade is truly a 100; I now find myself wanting more of this!! Everything is betterâ€¦.by HUGE amounts.
What I have noticed is that the DAC no longer makes any difference to the modded playerâ€™s superb sound; which brings me to my query.
1. Why does the DAC no longer have any effect to the sound, seeing that the jitter free source signal now has to pass via the DACâ€™s clock?
2. Now that I have such a fabulous source signal, would adding a DSP such as the GW Labs http://www.gw-labs.com/products/gwdsp.html sampler capable of upsampling to 96kHz, between the player and DAC provide even better results?
3. Or should I sell the (now redundant?) DAC and upgrade yet again to the Audiocom mk V clock and upgrade the cd playerâ€™s power supply?
I would welcome any thoughts or suggestions from the more experienced modders. However, please try not to be too technical.

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Topic - Advice sought on jitter, DACs, DSPâ€™s/Upsamplers and 96kHz - rigel9999 15:05:59 03/13/07 (6)

Re: Advice sought on jitter, DACs, DSPâ€™s/Upsamplers and 96kHz - Todd Krieger 23:36:06 03/14/07 (2)

Re: Advice sought on jitter, DACs, DSPâ€™s/Upsamplers and 96kHz - rigel9999 15:36:15 03/15/07 (1)

Re: Advice sought on jitter, DACs, DSPâ€™s/Upsamplers and 96kHz - Todd Krieger 03:28:20 03/16/07 (0)

Re: Advice sought on jitter, DACs, DSPâ€™s/Upsamplers and 96kHz - Dave Garretson 16:20:27 03/14/07 (0)

Jitter is the issue with digital playback - SoftwireEngineer 15:23:05 03/14/07 (0)

Re: Advice sought on jitter, DACs, DSPâ€™s/Upsamplers and 96kHz - Tom Schuman 02:12:54 03/14/07 (0)

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