Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[gilesw]

I've had these ones for years and I'm pretty sure the ends have been scratched up a bit. I'm just pleased that my pc has two digital outs so i can still run 5.1 out to my surround amp. All in all this has to be the best bang for buck of any of my hi-fi purchases, along with the mini-t I got for the kitchen.

With the low cost of all these bits I might even buy a new 2 channel amp to feed off my denon to do the fronts. What do you experts think the next bottleneck in my system could be?

g.

[RoboCopper]

My mobile phone just exploded in my pocket

And my wristwatch started to smoke

I was joking in this post, but now I am worried.

The battery was working fine so far (although charge did not last more than 3 days on few hours of listening a day), but now when I charge it, the green light is blinking when being charged.



btw battery does not get hot or anything mischevious, only green light is blinking on the charger whereas before it wasn't.

latest update. the green light is now steady as it used to be.
update two.... green light is blinking again.

Is that normal operation?

this sort of battery
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Portable-1...item23207673f3

[Richardl]

I've just received my BM, and it's up and running.

The set-up is......

SB touch with a Maplin PSU and a S-booster to Audiolab 8200DQ with a 0.5M Wireworld starlight Coaxial cable.

SB touch with a Maplin PSU and a S-booster with a VDC 1M optical cable into the BM, then using Xindak FA1's into the Audiolab 8200DQ's analogue inputs (I know the cables aren't great, but it's all I had knocking about with dismantling my very complicated cabling).

This setup means I can press a button between listening to the Audiolabs dac and the BM dac. Both setups were using the 8200's analogue volume control.

My thoughts so far.....I'm preferring the sound of the BM, the Audiolab seems a very slight bit more detailed (occasionally too detailed), slightly more digital sounding. I wish I could say more, but there's not really a lot in it though.

I'm going to be doing some swapping around in a bit, using the S-Booster and the Wireworld cable for the BM, I'll see how it goes. I'm guessing there's going to be a bigger difference after swapping around.

[jandl100]

You need to give yourself time to settle down with the sound as well, Richard!
... and the BM needs to run in.

Differences grow with familiarity.

[Richardl]

You need to give yourself time to settle down with the sound as well, Richard!

Differences grow with familiarity.

Yes, I really pleased with the BM, considering it's only been on about an hour and has a disadvantage with the cabling it seems an excellent buy.

I didn't give the rest of the system, a Nuforce mch-2c3 and Rega RS5 speakers.

[Richardl]

Had a slight change around.......

A) SB - Wireworld cable - BM - Audiolab
B) SB - VDC cable - Audiolab

B sounds horrible, the sound is completely out of control, too much bass ( every note is a 'Boing'............if you see what I mean) and it sounds as though someone has turned the treble upto 10 on my system, it sounds really harsh and completely unlistenable. One of the tracks I use to test new equipment was painful to listen to.

[RoboCopper]

Question in relation to Bushmaster PSU (sorry if the info was already given).

Can this be used to power Bushmaster? Is it worthwhile upgrade?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/13.8v-regula...ower-units-231

Thanks

[Clive]

Question in relation to Bushmaster PSU (sorry if the info was already given).

Can this be used to power Bushmaster? Is it worthwhile upgrade?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/13.8v-regula...ower-units-231

Thanks

All I can add is that on a T-amp it was worthwhile but the more expensive Ordo was better, . These Maplin jobbies are very cheaply made and some have a tendency to buzz.

See the Ordo here, hunt for a UK supplier of one of these, I got mine for £50 + postage:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORDO-90-12...-/120749249027
Can't be sure it's a good match for a DAC as it's designed for an amp

[aleman]

bushmaster arrived today played for four hours did not sound to bad however stans,sdac need to be run in .ha dto modify as mysource ha bnc sockets stripped bushmaster replaced input rca with silver plated bnc sockets wired with teflon covered pure silver wire rca outputsalso changed for silver plated cnc rca sockets silver wired also earth lug modified rivet rplced with a screw tgus only need to solder the wire leading to the earth tag which will help when furthet dismantling the dac to carry out any further mods ,also had to cut a slot in the inner ffront chassis bt the power konb so as to be able to take out the board to carry out wire and socket mods and any future mos without any difficulty as stan,s dac is very well built bur arkward to dissasemble cnc output sockets large thus rca hole had to be enlarged.reassembled th eunit fed for three day a diet of loose ends where are you 80,s funk on repeat via headphones asennheiser hd 485.

fed by marantz ud5005 universal player via silver plated 75 0hm coaxial cable terminated in silver plated 75 ohm bnc plugs then connected to a khzoumo individual left and right shunt 48 step passive preamp silver wired single input feeding in turn ajren helder ta 2020 battery powered t amp feeding tony gee solo horn loudspeakers the sound sublime bass taught informative midrange informative imaging great can easily pick out individal instrument depth of imaging is outstanding makes passive caiman sounde two dimensional how technology has come along teble shimmering detailed no harshness easy to folow hi hats sound real information never heard befoe even on discs i know well all the above is with the bushmaster fed via battery you may ask why change the sockets and wiring did this to the caiman dac and elicited an improvement on the bushmastereven more so as a great design i believe is being strangled via the wiring from the sockets both in and out from the board (sorry about my little pet hate even on equipment costing hundreds of pounds same awful wiring to sockets) .So thta aside a great dac i would happily recommend to anyone trying to get value for money and a good sound to boot the inputs are enoghe for my requirements .well done stan.thanks

[MartinT]

Well, I parsed those paragraphs several times and utterly failed. Don't you use punctuation? Also, we're still waiting for your name.