Beresford Bushmaster DAC

[Labarum]

I can collect

Andrew

Yea. Stan has a tollgate.

[loonytunes]

Think of how good the Caiman is...

Stan made that.
At £200 I'm sure the Bushmaster will be WAY better than any other £200 Dac out there


(...and the rest)

I'm sure it's going to be great - and I'm well aware from elsewhere how modern chipsets have moved on in recent years When I look at the extreme complexity of my own CD player with "miles" of wiring and loads of components in both digital and analogue domains, I really wonder how all this fudging made the CD94 based players sound any good at all

Chipsets may have moved on but I was shocked last night when I heard an old Philips CD610 MKII sound as good as it did! Now I've auditioned in my home the Wyred 4 Sound DAC2 and Burson HA-160D - and I would challenge anyone if they could clearly hear the difference in an A/B demo between either of those two and the budget Philips CD player from the late 80's; it's quite disturbingly good. Hence perhaps my inclination to buy a cheaper but well designed DAC like the forthcoming Bushmaster and save my money to put towards speakers and amps where sound differences are far more obvious!

[Shutdown98]

This sounds very promising :-)
At this point i own a Caiman with a Gator upgrade. At first i used the variable output to my Bryston B60 sst amp. At some point i changed to the fixed output and used the Bryston pre-amp. That was for the better.
In combination with a SBT (coax output) i do not use the usb-input no more...
So the bushmaster has no variable output and no usb input. Could be very nice for me!

[The Grand Wazoo]

Hi Remco,
It's always nice to see new members on AoS, but would you mind having a read of this please & then following the suggestion it makes?

[Shutdown98]

Offcourse!
And so i did :-)

[DSJR]

Chipsets may have moved on but I was shocked last night when I heard an old Philips CD610 MKII sound as good as it did!

Oh I think 1988 could do a lot better than the CD610/620/630 series But you're right, the main differences here were in better power supplies, the output stage and the muck being properly isolated from stage to stage within. Sometimes, this cost a fair bit extra..

[RochaCullen]

Come on the end of May!!!

[RoboCopper]

Come on the end of May!!!

Yes, I could come this weekend to Wembley to Q.

Hope to see you Stan

[aBe]

I am cutting out Marlboros and Walkers at this moment to save up for the Bushman.

[RoboCopper]

Morning,
I have already saved for BM, only need to buy a travelcard and visit Wembley one of the weekends
Hopefully this coming one.