Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[StanleyB]

No problem . So many things on my mind right now. I only have 19 pieces of stock left out of a first production of 250 pieces, and next batch won't be ready till last week of July. So I am completely stressed out right now with doing the logistics.

[Gazjam]

Hi Gaz,

Yes, you're right. I chose the wrong term. What I should've said is that the already bit perfect signal gets slightly polluted by some unwanted spurious noise. I've been experimenting with changing the config parameters on the Touch, and was able to affect the level of that pollution. However, the more I was getting close to minimizing this pollution, the more would I be getting breakages in the playback, even to the point that the Touch would just fall completely silent, and only a hard reboot would jolt it back to life! So you see, the files do not always get through.

You can't win (not on the cheap, at least).

Not good mate.
I know you liked your Touch as well.

[Jamtoast]

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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.

The word play is a nice analogy and I echo the sentiment. The most analogue sounding DAC I've ever heard.

[Jabberwocky]

FFS lighten up, it's only stereo. We are a community and as far as audio fora go, IMHO we are a fairly close knit one, so little spats will occur from time to time. But they rarely get out of hand, thanks mainly to the general ethos of the main body of members IMO. If such spats were a daily occurrence I would have some sympathy with your 'Farewell' - even the people involved do not seem to be as upset as you about it.
Join in and contribute your findings, there are a lot of people who would find it of interest, me included
Dave.

Will do - but a bit busy this week.
The 'rough and tumble' doesn't bother me - just don't see the point of it in this context. It wouldn't shut me up (quite the contrary) but it could put off others...

[Jamtoast]

For those who missed Stan's link, I bought one of these 12V rechargeable batteries and charged it up fully before powering the Bushmaster from it.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISA...E:L:OU:GB:1123

Listening to it tonight in place of the provided 12V Unifive SMPS, I am impressed.

Does this work to improve the sound while plugged in and charging or does that defeat the purpose?

[MartinT]

Does this work to improve the sound while plugged in and charging or does that defeat the purpose?

That would defeat the purpose and the supplied cables don't allow it anyway. The battery lasts for hours and hours on a single charge, so it's not really inconvenient.

[icehockeyboy]

FWIW, I use the Touch and I have no noise at all from the SBT that I can detect. I use a DACMagic but I also use an optical cable. I tried the coax with the Touch and found that optical just sounds better. I saw a few posts when it first came out and people recommended the coax as they thought it should sound better but after the Touch had been out a while I saw a lot of people confirming what I found in that the optical cable did sound better than coax

Stans own recommendation is a coax into input 4 (coax 2).

[icehockeyboy]

Only managed a very short listen, but last night after about 6 hours running, I listened to a few tracks vis Spotify, and first impressions were of a holographic feel to the music, I couldn't have the volume high enough to hear what was happening treble wise, hopefully do that later.

First impressions? Build quality miles ahead of my first Stan dac, small enough to hide from the wife's eyes ( very important!) and so far already an improvement on SQ!

[nightyy]

Just received mine, and as I am at work I can only comment on build quality:in that area the BM is miles ahead of its predecessors. The casings of the 7510 and 7520 were sturdy but looked a little like controllers in industrial environments. The BM is a gorgeous looking audio device!
It is noteworthy that I always had the trouble of my cables (coax, toslink, cinch, power) pulling the 7510/7520 down at the backside, so they went up at the front like doing a wheelie. The BM is deeper and will not suffer that effect.

[bacobits]

Can anone please tell me the cost on this Beresford Bushmaster DAC???
I cannot find it listed anywhere or if it is it does not state the price.
Also where is Beresford made? GB?
Sorry for the stupid questions I did not go through all the posts but my curiosity is up.

Both of Stan's link sites need better info.

Thanks!

D