Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

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Originally Posted by mudan

No it's been sent back for a refund. Despite how good it sounded I couldn't live with something that didn't quite do what it said on the box. Yes of course the audio quality is what I bought it for however a failed sleep function that apparently I could not get to work or wouldn't work in my system is not acceptable.

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Thanks Dav.
If anyone is looking sell their Bushmaster I'd be interested. I have one on my second system and am very pleased with it. Looking for another one to sit next to my armchair and use as a Headphone amp.
Cheers
John

Yes I think if you can put up with a defective sleep function then it can also make a nice headphone amp. If you see my review earlier I was quite impressed at how good my HD650 sounded through it. I'm expecting even better from my soon arriving M-DAC.

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Originally Posted by synsei

Nope... I won't... I really mustn't... I shall desist.... :eyebrows:

You are correct of course Gaz... ;)

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all things being equal of course... ;)

I am confused about this so-called "defective" sleep function. Mine works exactly as I expect. The lights are off unless I press a button but the DAC works perfectly.

Peter it seems yours is working as expected but how about if you try to deactivate sleepmode? i. e. Hold down the Select button in order to bring the LEDs on permanently? N. B. You may need to be in Auto mode to do this.

Seems that so far that only Alan47 and myself have had trouble. My first IC behaved like Alan's whereas my 2nd IC wouldn't enter sleep mode

I had sleep mode problems with mine too although I believe it was linked to another issue. What is not in dispute is that the BM sounds fabulous.

Don't want sleep mode, don't need it and don't care.
What I did want was no auto mode and that works fine.

The BM does sound very good indeed, especially from a source like the Logitech Touch playing Spotify (much better sound than I had expected), Sky HD (superb with all kinds of broadcasts) and Blu-ray.

I need to look into getting an SB sometime after reading all the great things on here about it ;)

I had the problem of not being able to get out of Sleep Mode too. At the same time I also lost the ability to select different inputs. I spoke to Stan and he sent me a replacement chip. I fitted the chip and reset sleep mode and all was well gain.

After a month or so of flawless operation I had the same problem again - cannot get out of sleep mode and no ability to change input. Again I spoke to Stan who expressed surprise that I had the problem again. Stan asked about my power arrangements and I told him I had the Bushmaster plugged into a Tacima Power Conditioner strip. Stan felt the Tacima might be causing problems and recommended that I buy an S-Booster. I asked Stan if I should avoid Sleep mode in future and he said that if it was causing me problems then yes. Stan also sent me another chip.

So I have now fitted an S-Booster to the Bushmaster and whilst I was at it fitted another to my Squeezebox Touch. I have fitted the new chip to the Bushmaster and this time NOT programmed Sleep mode. I now always switch off the DAC after use to avoid the over bright Blue LED shining all the time.

Now been operating in Non-Sleep Mode for a few weeks. No further problems and I must say the sound just keeps getting better and better.

No dispute about the sound at all - I was very happy with that aspect. I don't see how anything external can stop the sleep mode from operating when all it's doing is controlling the LEDs