Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[Werner Berghofer]

Jerry,

Does Werner have shares in Schiit?

certainly not. I’m just curious if a detail I’ve never noticed before also is audible with the Bushmaster. Is this kind of question not allowed in this thread?

Werner.

[webby]

Webby - When I get back from the Gt Harwood Charter Fair for the Jubilee, I will try some standard red book specification music, you any specific things you want me to try (if I have them)

No, anything. It's just that it's sounding like a hi res only DAC at the moment

[Stratmangler]

Covenant - I haven't go that album, I will endeavor to though, especially if the recording is that good.

Just a word of warning, it's just P.G singing with an orchestra in the background so very different to his usual stuff.

It's very different alright.
To say that the songs have been "rearranged" would be understating things just a tiny little bit.
These songs have been rearranged so that the tune bears little resemblance to the original.

Still, if it floats your boat....

[Val33]

All my listening is to 16/44.1 as this is all that the Airport Express outputs.

Val

[jandl100]

No, anything. It's just that it's sounding like a hi res only DAC at the moment

All my comments are based on 16/44 Red Book CD.

[MartinT]

Various "reference albums" all in High Resolution format, the albums so far have included Pink Floyds Dark Side Of The Moon (SACD release)

If you were using the Bushmaster, I don't see how you could have been listening to an SACD in hi-res. You most probably were listening to the red book 16/44 layer.

[webby]

All my listening is to 16/44.1 as this is all that the Airport Express outputs.

Val

All my comments are based on 16/44 Red Book CD.

Excellent.

[alan47]

Jerry,



certainly not. I’m just curious if a detail I’ve never noticed before also is audible with the Bushmaster. Is this kind of question not allowed in this thread?

Werner.

It's very audible on my Neco Soundlab V3 with KRK8400's,but can't say i heard it before you mentioned it . Cheers

[loonytunes]

Stan - would using the Touch volume control be good enough without the need for a dedicated pre-amp between the Touch and a power amp? Again I don't want to 'stifle' the ultimate SQ from the BM.

I ask this because your DAC does not include a pre section anymore more (which is fair enough) - and I would like to make the most of simplifying the connection by drilling direct into a power amp using just the one interconnect and use the Touch volume control.

Some might say that's very bad, but I am only listening to redbook quality CD rips and not at all interested in hi-res stuff.

[Rubberdog]

Day two of listening to the Bushmaster and I'm liking it more and more. The detail it presents is wonderful and precise, whilst the bottom end seems to have tightened up on many of my favourite tracks...especially as my living room has a suspended wooden floor which does sometimes lead to a slight boomyness to tracks...

Stan - I mentioned about the auto switching yesterday and have the culprit down to the Sonos ZP90 - on both coax and spdif... What reference level did you settle at for the switching selection? I would have thought that digital outputs would be roughly a standard...I wonder if in your work you had looked into (you must have) the levels that different products output at....mainly I'm thinking if there would be a way of 'Trimming' the output level of the sonos to play nicely with everything else as without the Sonos plugged in it all works great!!