Beresford Bushmaster DAC Reviews

[StanleyB]

That's why I won't review a product in less than 3 weeks.

Somehow that reminds me of an ex .

[Clive]

Somehow that reminds me of an ex .

Who was doing the reviewing or was it try before you buy?

[StanleyB]

Who was doing the reviewing or was it try before you buy?

Let's say that it was a performance related reward issue .

[Pieoftheday]

I like my bushmaster,simples

[pete_mac]

So much depends on how the system used is voiced. If the cabling or even amps are setup to favour a specific DAC then a DAC with different set of characteristics will unbalance the system. I spend ages auditioning and adjusting my system to give my review units a decent shot at sounding good. This is really time consuming and needs long term listening to get right, maybe I'm just slow..... That's why I won't review a product in less than 3 weeks.

I had the Bushmaster for two months in my system with similar results to the short half-day shoot-out in my friend's system. The results were similar each time.

As I mentioned in my posts, system synergy plays a substantial role. We felt that the bushmaster over-egged the pudding compared to the other DACs that we had on hand at the time. If we had less revealing speakers and amps at the time, who knows.

[MartinT]

XLR sockets

Bring it on - balanced outputs are the one thing I wish for in a Bushmaster successor.

[icehockeyboy]

I don't like the Bushmaster.















I love it!

[Xaval]

Funny you should type that. The BM is the first DAC that I have designed that has been bought by quite a few people within the recording studio and audio equipment manufacturing, and lately also from broadcasting. Some world renowned big name companies have ordered the BM for monitoring purposes.
Mind you, many of them have an additional list of options they would prefer to see in a future version such as XLR sockets and network linked controls. One company even asked if I had a mod and an app so that it could be controlled via an iPAD .

Monitoring equipment is supposed to be as dead neutral as possible - I think it's quite logical to chose a BM

XLR outs including for the headphones also? A balanced headphone rig by Beresford would be a welcome upgrade for sure. I don't currently own speaker amps for balanced operation, though...
Speaking of neutral sound Stan, which monitoring headphones, if any, have you tested your DAC with? I expect to have a pair of Beyers DT48 back to me in the coming weeks and I can't wait for this acid test with your DAC!

[seoirse2002]

Monitoring equipment is supposed to be as dead neutral as possible - I think it's quite logical to chose a BM

XLR outs including for the headphones also? A balanced headphone rig by Beresford would be a welcome upgrade for sure. I don't currently own speaker amps for balanced operation, though...
Speaking of neutral sound Stan, which monitoring headphones, if any, have you tested your DAC with? I expect to have a pair of Beyers DT48 back to me in the coming weeks and I can't wait for this acid test with your DAC!

are your ears balanced?

[Xaval]

are your ears balanced?

Working on it