Bushmaster DAC burn-in

[magiccarpetride]

Martin,
Enjoy what you have, my BM sounded very goods as a DAC and headamp when it was working. I have a 3 year old dac magic/2 year old MF MF1/cheap Chinese jobbie......none have missed a beat. The BM and caiman are the only audio components that I have had to send back to a manufacturer.
Sell me something that is bullet proof for 50 quid extra that is reliable, rather than the faff of an excellent product that shits itself within a couple of weeks of ownership........just my take.
Its how reputation is built......I wont buy another regardless.....

I'm less impatient than you seem to be. I decided to slough through and I kept my Bushmaster on constant burn-in. Guess what -- I think it paid off! Ten days into it, the Bushmaster finally came into its own. It never sounded better. Now when I plug the Caiman next to it, the Caiman sounds like fingernails across the chalkboard in comparison.

My advice -- give it a few weeks to burn in. There might be ups and downs from day to day, but bear with it. If after say two weeks of constant burn in you still don't hear improvements, well then perhaps it's beyond help.

[icehockeyboy]

As a previous post mentions, even top marques go wrong, he mentioned Lexus, I can add Mercedes to that, I have just had a new kitchen fitted recently,and two of the appliances were faulty!

You just have to accept things can and do go wrong, but it's the after sales service that sorts the wheat from the chaff!

[Alp]

I'm less impatient than you seem to be. I decided to slough through and I kept my Bushmaster on constant burn-in. Guess what -- I think it paid off! Ten days into it, the Bushmaster finally came into its own. It never sounded better. Now when I plug the Caiman next to it, the Caiman sounds like fingernails across the chalkboard in comparison.

My advice -- give it a few weeks to burn in. There might be ups and downs from day to day, but bear with it. If after say two weeks of constant burn in you still don't hear improvements, well then perhaps it's beyond help.

Its good to see the burn-in pay off. In my system a few changes did too

• Replaced the stock PSU with my Maplin XM-20W supply (15V) - made a big difference to highs and got rid of mushiness
• Put back the ferrite core to the Maplin PSU output lead. This took away the harshness.
• Changed the EDO 0.7 settings in my SBT to small buffer (I had 'large with random CPU' before which worked really well with the Caiman. The default also seems OK). This brought back the 3d soundstage I had with the Caiman.

Now the sound is similar to my Caiman with more bass and perhaps a bit more dynamic. Hopefully, I will also benefit further from the burn-in too.

[chrism]

Now when I plug the Caiman next to it, the Caiman sounds like fingernails across the chalkboard in comparison.

Is it possible that this young man may be slightly exaggerating do you think?

[webby]

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Now when I plug the Caiman next to it, the Caiman sounds like fingernails across the chalkboard in comparison.QUOTE]

Is it possible that this young man may be slightly exaggerating do you think?

That depends on whether he's listening to 'Now that's what I call fingernails on chalkboard 17' or not.

[Martinh]

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That depends on whether he's listening to 'Now that's what I call fingernails on chalkboard 17' or not.

[sq225917]

[QUOTE=chrism;339223]

Now when I plug the Caiman next to it, the Caiman sounds like fingernails across the chalkboard in comparison.QUOTE]

Is it possible that this young man may be slightly exaggerating do you think?

No, that never happens on hifi forums.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

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No, that never happens on hifi forums.

Especially subjectivist ones!

A veritable hotpot of pragmatism this place is!

[Gazjam]

happens here too...

[brian2957]

As a previous post mentions, even top marques go wrong, he mentioned Lexus, I can add Mercedes to that, I have just had a new kitchen fitted recently,and two of the appliances were faulty!

You just have to accept things can and do go wrong, but it's the after sales service that sorts the wheat from the chaff!

Totally agree Craig. In my case the Bushmaster wouldn't work with my laptop.
In all fairness I don't think that the Bushmaster was at fault. Stan , however resolved the problem to my entire satisfaction . Excellent after sales service as ever.
Brian.