Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[StanleyB]

Rest assured that I am leaving no stone unturned. I am even turning old stones that other engineers have already handled and then rejected with the excuse that it won't work or won't produce a quality result.
I have often been suspicious of such comments by those kind of people. Either they are not good enough to get something working, theorized that it won't work, or trying to sell you a far more expensive solution instead off the back of flawed science. Asynch USB anyone ?

[James_Woods]

Why the interest? If it sounds better it is...a bit of a google shows that the ES9023 is functional with out IV there are others

I want to understand technical things. Its like going into a cathedral and thinking of the amazing structural engineering. When I buy a car, I usually want to know whats under the hood: If I see its faster and takes less fuel than my
old one, its even more "great" if I see it takes that out
of an 16V/1.0 engine.

[Werner Berghofer]

Neal,

Why the interest?

what's wrong with a customer asking what he receives in exchange for his money?

Werner.

[NRG]

I want to understand technical things. Its like going into a cathedral and thinking of the amazing structural engineering. When I buy a car, I usually want to know whats under the hood: If I see its faster and takes less fuel than my
old one, its even more "great" if I see it takes that out
of an 16V/1.0 engine.

OK I can understand that but I'm not sure how much info you'll glean from knowing the part as I'm guessing the beauty of the BM is in the implementation...only Stan will know.

[NRG]

Neal,



what's wrong with a customer asking what he receives in exchange for his money?

Werner.

Nothing, where did I say that it was?

[tubehunter]

http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/dacs/WM8524/

[James_Woods]

http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/dacs/WM8524/

Thanks

[Ali Tait]

The chip was used in a Unico cd player. The Primo I think.

[barry-potter]

i've just got up. the reason being that i ended up listening to the bushmaster last night and just kept listening, am loving all the extra detail retrieval, if there is more to come after 12 hours burn in then i will be ecstatic. have to say i am impressed that you rolled this out at a price cheaper then the caimen, but i suppose that is the law of electronics - they get cheaper as time goes on. of course this breaks the law of hifi which is the reverse.

anyhow my one small gripe is that i still much prefer werners symbol layout , are you still thinking about this for later versions because i would really like it if it was retrofittable.

[loonytunes]

http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/dacs/WM8524/

Looking at the Wolfson page http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/dacs/#stereo_dacs, the WM8524 is not classed as a "high performance stereo DAC".

Perhaps because the WM8524 works better with a passive output design, much like the old TDA1543 DACs perhaps...

Amazing how old dacs like the TDA1543 are used in ultra-expensive designs such as this http://www.vertexaq.com/products/ale...aletheia-dac-1. Goes to show you don't need a high performance DAC there either I suppose.