Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[Stratmangler]

Just a question about the Sbooster, can use the Bushmaster sBooster switch with my Caiman DAC?

Thanks

Different sized connector.

[Fi-Wi]

What colour is the band of the connector that fits the Bushmaster?

[MCRU]

What colour is the band of the connector that fits the Bushmaster?

[MCRU]

Bollux, just went upstairs for a minute, came back down and a postcard from the post office ... Saying couldn't deliver my parcel and sorting office will have it on Monday. Nobody in sight down the road.
It's my LDA linear PSU from Mains Cable (David) made by Nick
Arrrghh... grrrrrrr

The postmen don't even knock on the door these days, they arrive with the red card ready!

Grrrhhhhh I paid extra so you would get it for Saturday, never mind!

[The Vinyl Adventure]

The postmen don't even knock on the door these days, they arrive with the red card ready!

Grrrhhhhh I paid extra so you would get it for Saturday, never mind!

They stroke the door ...
I cant understand how often this sort of thing happens ... they make more work for them selves??? It makes no sense!
We have a massive brass knocker on our door ... the amount of time they dont use it is madness ... this is why i get everything delivered to work... that and so the missis doesnt see parcels before i do!

[SteveW]

The postmen don't even knock on the door these days, they arrive with the red card ready!

Grrrhhhhh I paid extra so you would get it for Saturday, never mind!

Thanks anyway Dave !!
I'll pick it up in the morning.. What really grates though, is that I am away all week... Although the up side is that on weds at Glyndbourne pretending that entertaining clients counts as 'work'.
Look forward to hearing what Hamish is on about.

[NRG]

Just a question about the Sbooster, can use the Bushmaster sBooster switch with my Caiman DAC?

Thanks

You can get a 2.1mm to 1.3mm DC power adapter of Ebay for a few £

I was looking for the opposite but could only find the above...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC-Power-S...ht_1508wt_1145

[NRG]

If anybody has the 15v improved Caimen PSU it's worth getting a new 2.1mm plug fitted to it and then using it with the BM. I don't know if its the increased voltage or a better quality PSU but it makes a very worthwhile improvement to SQ across the board...

I take this back. I must learn not to try and evaluate kit when the family is in the house, too distracting.

In fact the stock supply is slightly better! There is slightly more detail and insight than the Caimen supply...it's subtle but it's there...waiting for the sbooster to turn up....

[Russell Turner]

For testing the evaluation PSU Nick had kindly sent me to evaluate I had the Stan provided PSU, a 13v 1amp hefty PSU I had "discovered" at work and Nick's evaluation unit.

The qualities Nick's PSU has above the others is ultimately it is cleaner sounding, its not as brash as the Stan unit, the hefty one isn't far off Nick's so I am guessing it is a Linear supply, hence the clean audio.

As a consequence of this cleansing of the audio signal you can interpret low level detail slightly better, perhaps its more coherent and better organised if you know what I mean...

Its also less fatiguing as well, I was sat listening to one of my reference CD's (The Art of Noise's Seduction of Claude Debussy) and I was not finding it hard work.

I think the stock Stan unit you get is louder, I would say by about 1dB or so (my Leema amp has 0.2dB volume steps), and I mentioned previously to Nick the low level detail is there with the stock unit, it just gets uncongested with the higher spec PSU.

Ultimately I guess the question would be “would you buy one”? I am unsure on this, don't get me wrong it does make a difference but I wouldn't say it made a £200 difference like the Squeezebox Touch power supply made, its better but its not jaw dropping difference better than the Touch one.

I guess this is a testament as well to Stan's DAC design more than anything, as it must have a good noise rejection front end that cleans up as much as it can before it gets to the audio parts.

Russ

[DaveK]

I take this back. I must learn not to try and evaluate kit when the family is in the house, too distracting.

In fact the stock supply is slightly better! There is slightly more detail and insight than the Caimen supply...it's subtle but it's there...waiting for the sbooster to turn up....

Hope this is relevant but I found with my Caimanised 7520 that feeding it 16.3v DC (from a linear PSU followed by a JLH Ripple Eater) actually improved the SQ to my ears. Stan recommended that as the maximum it would take and I have been feeding it 16.3v for well over a year now with no apparent ill effects .
Dave.