If not a Beresford, how about a HLLY or uDac2?

[Rare Bird]

Whats the headphone output sound like on the NuForce uDAC-2?

[bryan76]

Hi Andre,

Hopefully I should be able to answer your question soon. I am still awaiting a unit to have a play with..the UK dealer I am buying from is still awaiting stock, already delayed now by about 3 weeks as I understand. Which headphones are you using just out of interest as this is one of my main buying criteria? I am interested to know how well the uDac-2 copes with 250 ohm Beyers.


Hi Paul, mains conditioner sounds like a good investment...the want list is ever growing hopefully should be starting to burn something in soon...will drop you a line.

Cheers, Bryan.

[bryan76]

Well, like so many times before, I had a pop on ebay, and not that I thought I had the least bit chance of winning it, I have, and since an hour ago now own a......Beresford Caiman

Absolutely chuffed, and at £151 think thats pretty darn good-and apparently only 12 months old!!

Waiting for the post is going to be like torture

[Paul]

Ok so now we realy do need to meet up , I'm interested to hear the difference between mine and its big brother!
Hoefully it wont be too big a gap in sound or you may be staying for some time
Paul

[goraman]

Bryan,Take a look at the little dot DAC1 I have one and it sounds fantastic.
I have to mention that after 60 hours the PSU failed in a cloud of smoke but out of so menny sold mine is the only one (figures) but I'm sure it's a fluke and Little Dot has been wonderful in it's customer service.

It uses the same Wolfson chip as the DAC Majic and uses a tyroidal tranny insted of a switching psu with a wall wart.

[bryan76]

Well my Caiman arrived in excellent time on Tuesday, and despite the fact it's connected to my laptop, I have been too 'busy' to update the thread!! What can I say, other than I am really delighted with the sounds the Caiman is producing. It has exceeded my expectations

I am confined to a headphone experience these days, and having worried that this might not be as fullfilling as my main rig, I would say this is very musical indeed. Currently listening to Nitin Sawhney and its singing baby

The one thing which may or may not help someone is the difference Asio made in my particular setup. Initially using Foobar and WASAPI was ok, but on reading further into the subject, and then installing ASIO4All the difference was substantial. The sound opened up and became much more rewarding. Well worth playing around with and wont cost you a penny! The Asio website has a good installation guide which really helped!

Thanks to all for the suggestions and advice and to Stan for answering some queries. Great product sir.

Paul looking forward to catching up in the next few weeks and talking all things DAC

Cheers Bryan.

[StanleyB]

I am confined to a headphone experience these days, and having worried that this might not be as fullfilling as my main rig, I would say this is very musical indeed.

Some people have mentioned that the Caiman headphone output can stand its own ground even amongst far more expensive dedicated headamps. That hole in the front of the Caiman case is not there for just conveneinece .

The one thing which may or may not help someone is the difference Asio made in my particular setup. Initially using Foobar and WASAPI was ok, but on reading further into the subject, and then installing ASIO4All the difference was substantial. The sound opened up and became much more rewarding. Well worth playing around with and wont cost you a penny! The Asio website has a good installation guide which really helped!

I should add a link to their website once I have found where it is..

Thanks to all for the suggestions and advice and to Stan for answering some queries. Great product sir.

The pleasure was all mine .

[technobear]

http://www.asio4all.com/

[StanleyB]

Cheers Chris. I'll put it up as soon as I can recover my homehifi site. The hosting company appears to have messed up the pages and access to it .