Quote Originally Posted by loonytunes View Post
Stan - you must have heard the other well anticipated and then well overdue but now in production MDAC?

Having hopefully experienced the MDAC by now so you know what you are up against, does yours 'best' the MDAC? Which in turn was supposed to best £10,000 digital players (and so it goes on)...?
There is always the personal opinion, and the general consent. My personal opinion is that it is my best effort so far. Is it better than the MDAC? It certainly hasn't got most of the features of the MDAC. But I assume you are primarily interested in the audio reproduction side of things. Well let me put it this way, without appearing to be biased in favour of my own product: I am convinced that the Bushmaster will set a new standard in audio reproduction from a stand alone DAC. And price doesn't even come into it. I listened and read all that I could that DAC owners complained about in the various DACs that they had bought. From sloppy bass to harsh treble, or lack of separation between vocals or the different instruments. From metallic sounding pianos and violins to muddled guitar strings: I set about finding the reason for the decease, as I saw it, and the cure that I found to be the most practical and consistent. My biggest challenge was actually trying to understand the real reason why mp3 sounded so harsh in the mids and tops, and why headphones with large diameter voice coils sounded either weak or sloppy in the bass. Once I had come to a conclusion on those things, based on years of testing and circuit building, I put together a number of mods for my range of existing DACs. Then I released those mods as "open source" so that people could independently reproduce some of my results and see if they had arrived at the same conclusion as me. It was basically a field trial of various parts (that could be the making of a new DAC) on a grand scale, whilst at the same time improving the existing DACs at a relatively modest cost for existing owners. Once the results started coming in, I filtered out the bad ideas from the good ones and put it into a DAC circuit that wouldn't cost the earth to build and ship to anywhere in the world.
Whether the MDAC needs to be 3 times more expensive than the Bushmaster in order to be better, or whether the Bushmaster is better at a third of the price of the MDAC is not for me to decide. The Jury has also not yet been selected, but the trial date is not far off now .