Big step up to the Rega imo.
More musical, sounded more "real", bigger soundstage.
more of everything I guess.
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Big step up to the Rega imo.
More musical, sounded more "real", bigger soundstage.
more of everything I guess.
Originally Posted by StanleyB View Post
Guys I would like to point out that any drop out between source and DAC won't be masked by the Bushmaster. It does not use a mute circuit to hide drop outs and blips in the music, which is different to many other DACs.
That could account for the playback problems with the laptop certainly.
It was a very old laptop!
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The Brio-R Lee.Quote:
Originally Posted by webby
I'd say the Rega was easily better than the Caiman, a more "grown up" sound if you like. None of the dacs were poor however.Quote:
Originally Posted by webby
Gary will be able to give a more detailed answer, he's heard a lot more of both dacs.
Was the ranking in order of how much beer was consumed! :lol: :D :D
whit you sch'trying to shay like (hic)
na..everyone was driving lol
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Originally Posted by jandl100
“Our brains are like leaky sieves when it comes to auditory details. We can’t possibly remember the massive amount of data contained in even one song (roughly equivalent to one million words!). So, here again, our brains out of necessity heavily filter what we remember. […] The science shows our audio memory starts to degrade after just 0.2 seconds. So if switching from Gear A to Gear B requires more than a fraction of a second you’re losing more information. The longer the gap, the more you forget and the more bias distorts what you do remember.”
Source: Northwest audio & video guy: What we hear.
Great article Werner, very interesting.
though I forgot 97% of it after reading it :)
I'm now running my Bushmaster on battery power and like MartinT have noticed a worthwhile step up in SQ, compared to the supplied power supply.
The bass has improved in depth and power certainly and the top end seems even smoother.
Compared to my old Dacmagic (azur) the whole presentation is more solid, bassy and analogue sounding. There's never, ever a hint of coarseness.
My system is in the centre of our open plan house, so I have to moderate the use/volume depending upon who's at home. Pre-Bushmaster, my wife would usually ask me to turn it down a bit when she came in. Now, with the Bushmaster, that's stopped and I've noticed her humming along on several occasions. She's not mentioned anything, but I think that it's the lack of digital harshness that's made the difference.
Really enjoying my Bushmaster,