Bushmaster DAC burn-in

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Originally Posted by Hamish

Still requires them to care about better sound quality

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As a famous American said, they don't know what they don't know :)

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Originally Posted by Barry

Foot taps? :scratch: I've always thought it was the fan in the air-conditioning or heater unit. You can definitely hear the sound of air being blown around. :rolleyes:

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There's definitely something tinkling far-right and I thought it might be something caught in a fan, or someone tapping out a very light rhythm. Lots of moving air noise, agreed Barry.

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Originally Posted by Barry

Foot taps? :scratch: I've always thought it was the fan in the air-conditioning or heater unit. You can definitely hear the sound of air being blown around. :rolleyes:

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Yes you are right Barry.
It might well be the 2nd track.. whatever it's called. There is a very gentle count in "two...three", with an almost imperceptible foot tap. Or it's I'm my imagination ! Maybe it's all these psycho-improvements in performance or me having another senior moment !

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Originally Posted by MartinT

Count yourself lucky they didn't put the effing iPhone on its internal speaker. Quite how anyone can listen to the resulting nasty screech is beyond me.

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I remember as a pubescent kid listening to Radio Caroline and Luuxemborg on a crappy AM transistor radio under my bed covers when I should have been getting some sleep for school the next day....its sounded bloody fantastic ;)

A passion for music first and the Hi-Fi will follow if its strong enough. :)

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Originally Posted by NRG

I remember as a pubescent kid listening to Radio Caroline and Luuxemborg on a crappy AM transistor radio under my bed covers when I should have been getting some sleep for school the next day....its sounded bloody fantastic ;)

A passion for music first and the Hi-Fi will follow if its strong enough. :)

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Hopefully HiFi survive, I am always happy when I see younger chaps interested in separated amplifiers or speakers. I guess it is very hard for them to resist to marketing of home cinema/PC setups "deals".

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Originally Posted by NRG

A passion for music first and the Hi-Fi will follow if its strong enough. :)

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Oh yes, I agree with that.

I never really thought there was such a thing as burn-in. Maybe there still isn't.

However, the sound of the Bushmaster has changed (or appeared to) almost every day - unlike anything else I have owned to such a degree.

Was somewhat disturbed during the 'mush' phase :mental:- finally has got out of that and the treble is getting its sparke back. The imaging / soundstage have always been spot on though.

Just waiting for the SBooster to arrive from MG now ...

Anybody got experience of switching from Chord SilverScreen cable to something else ? Tempted by the Tellurium Blue. Darn this forum ! :eyebrows:

This might be a stupid question, but is it necessary to turn on the amplifier during burn-in, or is it enough to turn on just the source and the DAC?

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Originally Posted by Crimson

This might be a stupid question, but is it necessary to turn on the amplifier during burn-in, or is it enough to turn on just the source and the DAC?

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Just feed some music into the DAC. The amp can be off.

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Originally Posted by Crimson

This might be a stupid question, but is it necessary to turn on the amplifier during burn-in, or is it enough to turn on just the source and the DAC?

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The amp can be turned off, but you do need the cables from the DAC to the amp to be connected. :)