Beresford Bushmaster DAC

[Mr.Ian]

selling direct with no distributors or retailers in the chain must help a lot. I can well imagine each looking for a margin of 40-50% which could quadruple the price to the end user.

Looks to me as if the money is going into sound quality rather than displays etc so I imagine it being rather good - which is what I am keen to buy one asap.

[Labarum]

Basic specs are:
Two TOSLINK inputs
Two Coax inputs
One fixed Line output
One headphone output
Audio frequency range 0Hz to 20KHz.
Sampling freq. up to 192Khz

Other technical details:
No audio caps in the signal path between DAC chip and RCA/phono sockets.
No opamp output stage.
i.e. it is a fully passive output DAC.

My Caiman-Gator drives my Quad 520f Power Amp direct, straight into the sensitivity pots at the input. How will the Bushman cope with that, Stan? The input pots are 100k.

If it will I can replace the two single channel pots wit a ganged stereo pot and just carry on. Is the lack of a buffer amp likely to be an issue?

[StanleyB]

My Caiman-Gator drives my Quad 520f Power Amp direct, straight into the sensitivity pots at the input. How will the Bushman cope with that, Stan? The input pots are 100k.

If it will I can replace the two single channel pots wit a ganged stereo pot and just carry on. Is the lack of a buffer amp likely to be an issue?

The Bushmaster goes down to DC, which means that there could be a DC component in the audio signal path. It's not more thyan 1mV, but pots and volume controls can produce a scratching kind of noise when they have a DC voltage going through them. So you would have to put a capacitor in series with the signal in order to block the DC component.

Alternatively, you'll have to sit it out till I have completed the variable volume version of the DAC. No release date yet penned in for that one though.

[Labarum]

Alternatively, you'll have to sit it out till I have completed the variable volume version of the DAC. No release date yet penned in for that one though.

I can be patient.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

So what's the price?
Sorry of we have been over this ...
I don't even need another dac, in fact my caiman has gone into the work hifi today ...
Funny actually both my colleagues laughed saying they probably would be able to hear a difference compared to the old Cambridge audio dac ... Until I plugged it in ... Both of them looked a bit wide eyed and took back the preconceptions!
Anyway... I'm wittering ...
Is there a price yet?

[Mr.Ian]

Funny actually both my colleagues laughed saying they probably would be able to hear a difference compared to the old Cambridge audio dac ... Until I plugged it in ... Both of them looked a bit wide eyed and took back the preconceptions!.
Is there a price yet?

you mean they couldn't and they were surprised at how little things have moved on since 1989

[StanleyB]

As things stand, best estimate is less than £170 delivered to the UK, or £175 to anywhere else. I know that's beer money for some people, so you'll have to make a decision whether it's the beer or a Bushmaster .

[Gazjam]

a lot of us Caiman owners Stan (Im sure) are looking at the best of the current £500/£600 dacs and thinking "upgrade path"?

the Caiman sound great, if the new one is better I guess the likes of the Rega and Audiolab Dac is what you'll be up against.

90% of what a £600 Dac can do would get my £170
(not beer money to me so better be good!)

[Labarum]

a lot of us Caiman owners Stan (Im sure) are looking at the best of the current £500/£600 dacs and thinking "upgrade path"?

http://emotiva.com/xda1.shtm

[Gazjam]

...and that