Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[magiccarpetride]

Alex-treat yourself to a digital interconnect cable from Mike Homar, they are the dogs danglies.

How many dogs danglies are we talking?

[magiccarpetride]

Alex - as well as changing the interconnect cables, compare what you hear from the headphone output. If the highs are not rolled off, there's unlikely to be anything wrong with the BM.

Good advice, Martin. Not sure if my cheapo headphones will be up to the snuff, though.

[Stratmangler]

So, if they haven't sounded better then they sounded the same, I'm presuming. In my case, they sound different with the Bushmaster.

You have speakers that are hot in the HF response in stock form.
You might find that going back to plain vanilla Maggies is a good starting point.
Forget all of the tweaking you've done in the past, and start with a fresh page...

[magiccarpetride]

You have speakers that are hot in the HF response in stock form.
You might find that going back to plain vanilla Maggies is a good starting point.
Forget all of the tweaking you've done in the past, and start with a fresh page...

I was kinda thinking in the same direction. My Maggies are big, and are notorious for acting as antennas picking up RF noise and pushing it back into the audio circuitry. That's always been causing them to sound on the brighter side, until this Tuesday evening, when I plugged in the Bushmaster. Suddenly, my Maggies turned dark... At first I LOVED the mellowing effect (oh-so-analog-like!), until I realized that some of the sparkling chimes are now much less prominent in the mix.

[Covenant]

How many dogs danglies are we talking?

A pride of loins (not bad eh?)

[webby]

You have become accustomed to the typical bright metallic sound of digital audio and lost the ability to recognize a more analogue sound I reckon.

So the Caiman was guilty of that sound and the BM has fixed that, yes?

[Gazjam]

I am perfectly serious. Just imagine the commercial damage your findings are doing to my reputation. I have already had some potential customers sending me PM to say they are getting cold feet from it all. It's best that I take the DAC back and have someone else try it out so that we can confirm if it is the DAC or not. After that I shall probably give it way if it works fine.

Feedback on a public Forum can be a bit of a double edged sword i guess?

I think its good customers can communicate with you in this way Stan - positive or negative - and its good PR that you are so helpful
Lots of positive comments for the Dac on this and the other thread so that has to be good, right?

p.s. heard the BM last night, sounding good Stan.
Deep tight bass, very clear sound. A good Dac for under 200 pounds.

[Gazjam]

Sorry, didn't mean to cause any damage. I though you were asking for open feedback from those of us who happily purchased your DAC. As I've repeatedly mentioned in this thread, I'm absolutely blown away by this product, and I'm only discussing certain issues at the fringes, hoping to get to the bottom of it. Perhaps it's the interconnects capacitance, perhaps it needs a bit more burn in time. I've already received some useful suggestions from the members here. Sorry, but I don't feel that 'just return it for a refund' is a useful suggestion, nor is it necessarily a stand up and applaud exemplary customer service.

Please recognize that an audio component may exhibit different symptoms depending on the particular audio chain where you plug it in. I'm sure there is a way to get this sorted out, and even if not, the rest of the benefits this product offers colossally outweigh any minor misgivings (perceived or not).

this.

[NRG]

No rolled of highs in my system, I think Martin is on the money with a HF roll off due to those long I/C cables. Its certainly not a design issue with the BM or a synergy one IMHO.

[Marco]

I think its good customers can communicate with you in this way Stan - positive or negative - and its good PR that you are so helpful!
Lots of positive comments for the Dac on this and the other thread so that has to be good, right?

Spot on!

It's impossible to please all of the people all of the time, so all you can do is your best. The fact that you're here, Stan, to communicate 'live' with your customers is massively important to the continued success of your business, and on AoS, you'll always receive all the support you need

Marco.