
Originally Posted by
MartinT
Firstly, on the sound of the Bushmaster, we've given you enough real-life experience to surely draw a better conclusion than "it's on the cool or dry or clinical side". That is NOT what the BM does when you feed it a good quality source (not with iTunes or mp3 sourced crap).
The Bushmaster was fed with the same high quality digital front end and high quality files as all of the other DACs during my review/shootout, so my own personal perception of slight dryness shouldn't be attributed to a crap system or crap files.
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