Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[kininigin]

It certainly looks like,your on to a winner with this one stan!!

I look forward to hearing one,in the future

[Gazjam]

Send me the bill for the drinks. Gaz might leave you guys thirsty all night .

You DO know Stan all us Jocks drink 40yr old Single Malt scotch...?

[Gazjam]

I'll taking along my DIY valve output dac, and I believe there will be a Rega dac too. I've given Bernie a shout to come along, if he does we could try the AN dac too.

Rega Dac and Gator Caiman (with EVERY mod) too.

[StanleyB]

You DO know Stan all us Jocks drink 40yr old Single Malt scotch...?

Not when they got to drive back in the middle of the week .

[RochaCullen]

You DO know Stan all us Jocks drink 40yr old Single Malt scotch...?

You should head down the road, Gary, and grab yourself a bottle of Auchentoshen three wood. Glasgee's finest. Smooth and full of flavour. Had more last night of that than I should have, today's been dragging.

Nathan

[snapper]

Rega Dac and Gator Caiman (with EVERY mod) too.

What about a plain vanilla TC 7510? I'm very interested in how they compare to the Bushmaster.

[Gazjam]

What about a plain vanilla TC 7510? I'm very interested in how they compare to the Bushmaster.

Moved on a fair bit from that, but never say never

[magiccarpetride]

It's all about the music, and having access to the right tools at the right price that suits most pockets. I am at a loss to understand why anyone would wish to obstruct new advances designed to solve outstanding problems that have been identified since the last millennium with the reproduction of digital music.

Things keep getting better with the Bushmaster, now that it continues burning in (I'm leaving it on a constant uninterrupted 27/4 burn-in diet).

Hey, I've just discovered a brand new Bushmaster's talent. This is something I've never heard from ANY DAC, but this baby seems to offer it in troves (after the mandatory initial burn-in, that is). It's gonna be very hard for me to describe this new peculiar talent in words, so the impatient should stop reading right about now:

Let me start with a riddle. You know those pesky little sentences many of us keep getting in an email, as a lighthearted joke? Something like this:

H0W 0UR M1ND C4N
D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5
1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5
1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
17 WA5 H4RD BU7
N0W Y0UR M1ND 15
R34D1NG 4U70M471C4LLY

For the purposes of my illustration, let's say that regular DACs are converting digital to analog by rendering sentences in the above fashion. Now, what I found about the Bushmaster is that, unlike any DAC I've ever heard, it actually renders the above material like this:

HOW OUR MIND CAN
DO AMAZING THINGS
IMPRESSIVE THINGS
IN THE BEGINNING
IT WAS HARD BUT
NOW YOUR MIND IS
READING AUTOMATICALLY

Looks like a minor difference? Not really. The difference is actually enormous. You see, even though the brain can be trained to read the original gobbledegook, it tires easily, because it's constantly straining to replace the numbers interspersed in the text with the appropriate letters. What the Bushmaster does is it spells out, in full (in clear text), the content it is converting from the bit-perfect digital signal.

This feat produces such clarity, such enjoyable listening experience, that it can indeed rightly be compared to a good analog reproduction. It is, to my mind, a major breakthrough, because what I've discovered is that now I can literally listen for hours on end, and continue enjoying music, while not getting tired or fatigued even one bit.

I don't know what exactly is going on inside this DAC, but I call it 'continuity'. When I compare it with other DACs I've listened to, I'm startled to hear the lack of this 'continuity' in other DACs, which causes tiredness and irritability to the listener. Basically, all other digital reproduction that I've listened to seems to expect the listener to 'fill in the blanks' (in a similar fashion to how we were expected to 'fill in the blanks' with the above letters-and-numbers sentences). It is this 'continuity' that seems to be a special talent of the Bushmaster, because it does not expect us, the listeners, to fill in any blanks. Because of that, it is now incredibly easy to follow any instrument, or any chosen cluster of instruments/voices, from the beginning to the very bitter end, without losing track for even a split second. Musical performance now feels completely coherent, as there are no hiccups or little burps on the journey. In short, the music flows joyously!

That, to me, is a major accomplishment. I'm pretty sure there must be other high end DACs that can compete with regards to this ability to offer uninterrupted 'continuity' and the joyous flow of music, only I haven't ever been able to hear such rare beasts. Did anyone ever hear DACs that can pull this stunt? Did what I wrote here even make any sense to anyone?

[MartinT]

Don't forget to put it on charge. And read the instructions how to do it! It looks straight forward, but isn't. A safety feature I reckon.

Ah yes, the instructions. "the inner circuit cut off automatically in case of uncorrectly use".

[StanleyB]

To paraphrase captain Kirk: "It's English Martin but not as we know it."