Bushmaster DAC burn-in

[MartinT]

Still requires them to care about better sound quality

As a famous American said, they don't know what they don't know

[MartinT]

Foot taps? I've always thought it was the fan in the air-conditioning or heater unit. You can definitely hear the sound of air being blown around.

There's definitely something tinkling far-right and I thought it might be something caught in a fan, or someone tapping out a very light rhythm. Lots of moving air noise, agreed Barry.

[SteveW]

Foot taps? I've always thought it was the fan in the air-conditioning or heater unit. You can definitely hear the sound of air being blown around.

Yes you are right Barry.
It might well be the 2nd track.. whatever it's called. There is a very gentle count in "two...three", with an almost imperceptible foot tap. Or it's I'm my imagination ! Maybe it's all these psycho-improvements in performance or me having another senior moment !

[NRG]

Count yourself lucky they didn't put the effing iPhone on its internal speaker. Quite how anyone can listen to the resulting nasty screech is beyond me.

I remember as a pubescent kid listening to Radio Caroline and Luuxemborg on a crappy AM transistor radio under my bed covers when I should have been getting some sleep for school the next day....its sounded bloody fantastic

A passion for music first and the Hi-Fi will follow if its strong enough.

[RoboCopper]

I remember as a pubescent kid listening to Radio Caroline and Luuxemborg on a crappy AM transistor radio under my bed covers when I should have been getting some sleep for school the next day....its sounded bloody fantastic

A passion for music first and the Hi-Fi will follow if its strong enough.

Hopefully HiFi survive, I am always happy when I see younger chaps interested in separated amplifiers or speakers. I guess it is very hard for them to resist to marketing of home cinema/PC setups "deals".

[MartinT]

A passion for music first and the Hi-Fi will follow if its strong enough.

Oh yes, I agree with that.

[bronzeage]

I never really thought there was such a thing as burn-in. Maybe there still isn't.

However, the sound of the Bushmaster has changed (or appeared to) almost every day - unlike anything else I have owned to such a degree.

Was somewhat disturbed during the 'mush' phase - finally has got out of that and the treble is getting its sparke back. The imaging / soundstage have always been spot on though.

Just waiting for the SBooster to arrive from MG now ...

Anybody got experience of switching from Chord SilverScreen cable to something else ? Tempted by the Tellurium Blue. Darn this forum !

[Crimson]

This might be a stupid question, but is it necessary to turn on the amplifier during burn-in, or is it enough to turn on just the source and the DAC?

[magiccarpetride]

This might be a stupid question, but is it necessary to turn on the amplifier during burn-in, or is it enough to turn on just the source and the DAC?

Just feed some music into the DAC. The amp can be off.

[jandl100]

This might be a stupid question, but is it necessary to turn on the amplifier during burn-in, or is it enough to turn on just the source and the DAC?

The amp can be turned off, but you do need the cables from the DAC to the amp to be connected.