Quote Originally Posted by Darren View Post
I'd like to try a Bushmaster in my work system but am deeply skeptical regarding substantial differences between reasonable dacs - certainly I've never heard any though my experience is limited.
I was able to hear a difference between my DACMagic and the BM. At first the DM had more bass and clearer highs but that was when the BM was just a few hours old. After the BM broke in (and I can tell you I was VERY skeptical of the people on the forum saying that after 4 or 5 days the BM changed a lot and for the better) it bettered the DM in all areas.

If I didn't have them both hooked up at the same time with both outputs from my Touch running to each DAC where I could just change from AUX1 to AUX2 and not miss a beat it would have been harder to hear the difference. If you have to take a few minutes to shut everything down and change cables, fire everything back up and then compare it can be really hard to hear a difference, at least for me but when you have both running and can just click a button and change back and forth it is very easy to hear the differences.