i dont suppose anyone has compared the bushmaster to the Meier stagedac?
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i dont suppose anyone has compared the bushmaster to the Meier stagedac?
Do you mean the Lurcher Bushmaster PSU, just to be clear? ThxQuote:
Originally Posted by NRG
I must add that the Lurcher PSU for the Bushmaster was not a rouge design that attempts to feed off the sales of the Bushmaster. It was a properly designed integral part of the Bushmaster. Nick, the designer of the Lurcher power supply, and me spent a considerable period working together on this project. And more than one version was developed and auditioned until we were both satisfied that the final design would exhibit a clear and noticeable difference for the money that is being asked for it.
The Lurcher PSU is also the only one that incorporates the earthing lead that can be hooked up to the earth tag on the Bushmaster DAC. This is an important option on the power supply since it allows for the use of the BM and the PSU in quite hostile mains conditions with zero deterioration in audio performance. This is worth mentioning.
Just want to say that customer service from Stan is absolutely top class. I contacted him late last week with a slight problem, and was told my Bushmaster needed a couple of updates. He did the updates for me (as I don't really know one end of a soldering iron from the other) and got it back to me really quickly.
The brief time spent without the Bushmaster was a revelation though. It was almost painful listening to music, as there was such a lack of depth and clarity. Now I've got it back, I'm very happy again, and can only marvel at what Stan puts/does inside that box.
Great stuff.....cheers Stan.
Late, reply, yes the Lurcher PSU...highly recommended.
Due to having the advantage of being able to put the Led's on sleep mode i keep forgetting to turn my BM off at night.I have now given up and just leave it on 24/7.It never gets hot,but am i doing it any long term damage.??Don't know enough about electronics to know.I once left a JCB running in the yard for a bank holiday weekend and it loved it,mind you it smoked a bit when i revved it up.:lol:
You'll find that a lot of people tend to forget to switch it off. The current consumption is around 160mA in auto mode. That's roughly 2Watts. Not enough to heat up the DAC. But of course, switching it off is always a good way to save on energy.
Thanks for the info Stan,i can live with 2 watts.
Bye the way it is sounding even better than you said it would.
One very happy customer here..:D
I leave mine on all the time.
Any news on the development of the Bushmaster plus Stan?
Having owned a Gatorised Caiman, an HRT headstreamer, and being the current owner of an MDac, an Imod/Ibasso Heron and a M2Tech Young DAC, I thought some might appreciate a mini review.
My ears lean toward a deep low end detailed wide sound. I listen to music mostly through headphones; Denon AHD2000's, Audeze LCD2's and Klipsch X10i's.
The service was absolutely first class, several messages from Stan and arrived 1030 the next day.
We feel often the need to justify why we like something so much with detailed analysis; but often you know you just like it instantly . The delivery of the music to your ears gives you a glow , you know you are in the presence of something special.
Let me tell you that straight out of the box this is what I felt. The Bushmaster to my ears stands up to anything else I have. The M2Tech Young DAC is £1200. The MDac £600. The IMod probably the same. It's as if Stan knows what we want.
I would urge anyone in the market for a Dac who is thinking they should be spending serious money to get what they want; listen to the Bushmaster first.
Well done Stan, I am astonished what can be achieved for £180
:):):):):):):)
I have the mdac and I have the bm. The bm beats it hands down. And the mdac is a fantastic sounding piece of kit. My young dac with a solo headamp sounds maybe smoother. But for deep bass lovers who want to hear the gravel of kurt kobain then even the young combo is getting a run for it's money:):):)Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
I am also the owner of an imod ibasso combo but the comparison is perhaps not fair as this is a totally portable setup. The price new would put this in a £600 + bracket however. Soundwise there is no comparison.
I love all my kit too. But the BM is truly a force to be reckoned with.
For sheer weight of bass, detail and imaging . And from an engineer who lives in England too.
Stan, please will you at least consider making a portable headamp with the soundsig of the bm?
There's so much on the market but most of the allegedly decent stuff comes from the us or further.
After reading some, not all, of these posts. I have just bitten the bullet and ordered a Bushmaster DAC and a Belden 1.5 mtr 1694a coax cable.
I'm hoping that it's not all hype.... suppose we'll wait and see!
@ Glennan....
Have you had a chance to play with your new toy yet?
If so....review please?
M
There have been reviews on the Bushmaster by numerous people. I am sure many of those reviewers would consider their write up to be an honest opinion. It's quite disappointing that anyone should talk about hype when so many happy BM customers write to say how pleased they are with their purchase.
Its a great sounding Dac guys, best bang for buck.
I haven't heard any hype,just people ,like me ,saying how good it is.You can tell if it's hype when you see them all in the for sale column.Well done again Stanley...
It's good to see the Beresford Bushmaster 5 star review in the January 2013 edition of Hi-Fi choice :)
Well done Stanley :cool:
Thanks Mark. I just had a read of it. At least they got it right with the analytical nature of the Bushmaster. I like hunting out every last bit in an audio track :).
I can vouch for this. It's almost unsettling how precise and accurate this component is. The level of detail I'm hearing with Bushmaster is eery. Switch to a different DAC, play the same track again, and voila! that eery presence is gone, to be replaced with something more 'editorialized'.Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
But hey, some people may prefer their music editorialized?
I hope Stan does well from the reviews at hi fi choice. I am sure glad I didn't wait for the experts to get hold of it. It may seem naive, but I place a lot of my buying advice on the various forums around. There are lots of different viewpoints from ordinary people who have tried lots of different kit.
It may not be a scientific approach but I don't listen to the music scientifically. And Beresford products deliver.
Until there is an equation that says this product has a huge sound stage or stunning detail or a deep rich bass or a completely neutral sound we will all be agreeing to disagree. It will all be subjective to our ears , our level of concentration, even our bias as we've bought the darn thing and HAVE to like it!
So if someone has kit and is prepared to stick their head above the parapet I think it's worth a read. And then read someone else. And so on.
If I can help make people's minds up about what they're looking for all well and good. My ears are no better or worse than anyone else I guess. :):)
i know I have waxed lyrical about mine from the word go, but that write up has to be good for Stan, and the rest of us who have said how good his Bushmaster is!
Analytical is often interpreted as a negative word in audio. It is often interpreted as focusing on detail. In my opinion BM don`t do this at all. The detail is there, but integrated in the music, as it should be.
Perhaps i am nitpicking, but i think the sound should be described correctly.
Hello, I am here to express my great satisfaction with the dac bushmaster, I come from an Italian forum, the T-forum, where many have expressed their concerns about the sonic performance of the bushmaster, but this just before I heard him effettivament.
Then once heard the surprise was so pleasant that others have followed me in buying it, and now I'm very happy.
* The bushmaster is a great dac also connected to my old and beloved pioneer PD77, which has improved in all. Thanks Stan.:)
I apologize for my bad English, the result of the translator of google.:o
I am still so happy with my bushmaster. I have spent a lot of money on others but the bm stands its ground with them all .
I have a review in the making comparing the young , the mdac, the hrt streamer pro , the bushmaster, colorfly c3 and the imod.
If you like bass you'll like the Bushmaster
looking forward to reading your comparisons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cans
i had the Young on home trial but found it no improvement over my current dac.
however i was only comparing using redbook material, i guess the young would come into its own on hi-res!
hoping to get a new dac sometime and the BM is on my shortlist.
Wow- you must have some set up !Quote:
Originally Posted by oldson
I haven't heard your Meier but if the Young was not an improvement, I'm sorry- you're asking too much of the BM to be an improvement to your system
Hi Biagio, thanks for the great compliment :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Biagio De Simone
For the couple of days I have had to listen to the BM I must say it sounds excellent although my unit has stopped working. I am reliably informed that mine is an early model and needs a firmware update. I am awaiting instructions from Stan re: shipping so that he can sort it.
An issue that really niggles me about the BM is the input selection methodology, it is a PITA and more complex than it needed to be. It would have been far more sensible to have stuck with the simple but effective arrangement employed on previous Beresford DAC's, and AutoSelect??? Seemingly a good thing on paper, in real world use it just gets in the way and spoils the ownership experience a little bit.
Since it is a software controlled function it is not impossible to amend the operation method and functionality. If anyone has any suggestions with regards to the most convenient method of operation I can see if I can rewrite the code to match that method.Quote:
Originally Posted by synsei
If it is possible to program it to operate in the same manner as the Caiman it would be perfect Stan :)
The Caiman has four input select button, and the BM has only one. So an exactly same functionality is not possible. However, I shall think about how to make it possible to switch the auto function ON/OFF in an alternative manner.
Of course, sorry Stan I am being dense. Not having a great time of it just now so my heads all over the place... :eyebrows:
Estimado Stan, tengo un amplificador Todo en uno Audio Block CVR100 con entradas analógicas varias y me interesa mejorar el sonido de fuentes externas mediante un DAC y pienso el DAC Beresford TC-7530, pero no logro leer sobre su calidad en las altas frecuencias, me gusta mucho el sonido de los platillos definidos.
Tal vez una comparación con el DAC PS Audio NuWave que he leído tiene muy buenos agudos.
Translated version:
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Originally Posted by sergio
Hi Sergio, there are comments from existing users about the clarity, separation, and realistic sounding reproduction of the high frequency of guitars, violins, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by sergio
Ooh Alex, you operate that there Google Translate so well... :)
Hi fellow countryman Sergio !.
The Beresford is just outstanding in every respect you mention. You need to spend a lot more to get similar results, and YET, the clarity I get from the Caiman is second to none.
Saludos!
Antonio
Dear Stan:
I have read the forum before writing to you.
Some friends of the forum I have spoken well of the Caiman, but I want to know if the 7530 Beresford Dac has better sound response Shiit Bifrost DAC or the DAC PS Nuwave.
* I do not need USB, only optical or RCA inputs and sound quality at the outputs.
A QUESTION.
Beresford Caiman DAC does is less than 7530 Beresford DAC? : Scratch:
Sorry for my questions. kindly
Sergio
Hi Sergio, can you describe for me what a better sound means to you? I can then have a clearer idea. But frequency and technology wise, the Bushmaster has a better frequency response (1Hz to 20KHz at 0dB deviation). This is mainly due to the direct coupled audio output (i.e no opamps and capacitors in the signal path), which retains signal purity and tonal balance of the audio signal. So there is no phase shift or filters in the audio path either.Quote:
Originally Posted by sergio
I know: the Caiman should have been on sale for two or even three times more. Many people have told me that. The Bushmaster is however also going up in price soon. The £ is falling in value against the U$ and Euro, so I shall have to put the price up in order to avoid making a loss.Quote:
A QUESTION.
Beresford Caiman DAC does is less than 7530 Beresford DAC? : Scratch:
Dear Stan:
Thank you very much for your reply, in conduct my order a few days before a price increase.
kindly,
* Sergio.
Dear Sr. Stan
I am interested in working with a company in Spain that has more than 11 years working HIFI Sound* and would like to show them your DAC Beresford competitive, which is why I have made some questions about possible comparisons with other dac today, as PS Nuwave and Shiit Bifrost, but if you have not been able to make no problems in any case seems to have magnified your DAC price and quality.
Kindly, Sergio.
I totally support to introduce a way to deactivate "auto mode". Switching from input 4 to 3 requires several fast pushes to stop the auto scan feature from starting its auto switching.Quote:
However, I shall think about how to make it possible to switch the auto function ON/OFF in an alternative manner.
Agreed, I'd rather have manual enabled at all times.
I am probably imagining things, but to my ears manual selection on input on the Bushmaster does seem to result in a more satisfying listen.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Stan has performed a hack to the firmware which keeps the BM in manual mode as I found auto to be a complete PITA...
Stan has just sent me revised firmware which sorted a no-lock issue I had with my Sky HD box. Ah well, it's not that important.
Hi Stan, the DAC used in the Bushmaster has filters & output stages built into the chip surely?Quote:
Originally Posted by StanleyB
Stan, somwhere you said, that in the fall of 2012 or in the beginning of 2013 will be the new reincarnation of Bushmaster with USB input. Any news to expect?
Have other BM owners had issues with the DAC not locking onto signals coming into the coaxial inputs or perhaps not working correctly on any input? The last issue presents as no output from the DAC despite active data being fed to the inputs. When the DAC is in this state, turning the volume up beyond the 12 o'clock position on the amp reveals a gentle hum and soft digital hash which isn't present when it is operating normally. The last time this happened the BM failed to recover from it and I had to return it to Stan so that he could sort it out. It happened again last night however this time I was able to recover from the situation by turning the unit off and back on again, a procedure that did not work on the previous occasion. I'd just like to know whether anyone else has experienced this issue?