[rtweed]

I've just had delivery of a Beresford Bushmaster DAC: Stanley
Beresford's latest and greatest.

Just to be clear - I have no commercial relationship with Stanley's
company, but I've been interested in his DACs since purchasing his
excellent and low-cost 7520 model some years ago. I heard about his
new Bushmaster model pretty much by accident and decided to give it a
try....again it's a very low cost device, at least here in the UK
where Stanley is based. Already this device is getting a lot of very
good press.

I'd assumed it would be marginally better than the 7520. I was wrong.
This thing is in another league - I've really never heard anything
like it. I have it playing directly into a Behringer A500 power amp
and PMC speakers. They have never sounded better. Clarity like I've
never heard before - it's quite stunning.

I'd recommend any reader of this group to try to get your hands on one
and try it out for yourselves. For more info on this unit:

http://www.homehifi.co.uk/main/main.html

Apologies if this sounds like a fanboi rave, but I just think this is
a piece of kit that warrants attention.

Rob

[Audio Empire]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 05:24:09 -0700, rtweed wrote
(in article ):

I've just had delivery of a Beresford Bushmaster DAC: Stanley
Beresford's latest and greatest.

Just to be clear - I have no commercial relationship with Stanley's
company, but I've been interested in his DACs since purchasing his
excellent and low-cost 7520 model some years ago. I heard about his
new Bushmaster model pretty much by accident and decided to give it a
try....again it's a very low cost device, at least here in the UK
where Stanley is based. Already this device is getting a lot of very
good press.

I'd assumed it would be marginally better than the 7520. I was wrong.
This thing is in another league - I've really never heard anything
like it. I have it playing directly into a Behringer A500 power amp
and PMC speakers. They have never sounded better. Clarity like I've
never heard before - it's quite stunning.

I'd recommend any reader of this group to try to get your hands on one
and try it out for yourselves. For more info on this unit:

http://www.homehifi.co.uk/main/main.html

Apologies if this sounds like a fanboi rave, but I just think this is
a piece of kit that warrants attention.

Rob


Some Q's for you, if you don't mind, Rob.

1) How much, in US dollars, was the Bushmaster, as delivered to you? Did you
order it directly from Beresford in GB?

2) Is this unit, the TC-7530DC, made by TEC in China like Bereford's previous
DACs, the TC-7510 and TC-7520?

3) What DAC chip(s) does the TC7530 use? I find that most of the IC DAC chips
sound pretty much alike. The exception being the ESS SabreDAC.

4) Does it up-convert 16-bit, 44.1/48 KHz to 24/96? The website doesn't say.

And why, oh why do do many DAC manufacturers fail to provide either a light
or a digital display telling the user what actual sample rate the converter
has locked onto?

Thanks.

Audio_Empire

[rtweed]

Some Q's for you, if you don't mind, Rob.

1) How much, in US dollars, was the Bushmaster, as delivered to you? Did you
order it directly from Beresford in GB?

Just under 200 UK pounds incl VAT and delivery. Current exchange rate
is about 1.55 USD to the UKP


2) Is this unit, the TC-7530DC, made by TEC in China like Bereford's previous
DACs, the TC-7510 and TC-7520?

Dunno. I do believe it is manufactured to Stanley's designs offshore.


3) What DAC chip(s) does the TC7530 use? I find that most of the IC DAC chips
sound pretty much alike. The exception being the ESS SabreDAC.

4) Does it up-convert 16-bit, 44.1/48 KHz to 24/96? The website doesn't say.


Again dunno - you may find answers at the Art of Sound forum, eg
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...ght=bushmaster

Stanley seems to hang out there so you may be able to get answers
straight from the horse's mouth.

And why, oh why do do many DAC manufacturers fail to provide either a light
or a digital display telling the user what actual sample rate the converter
has locked onto?

Dunno, sorry :-)

Rob

[rtweed]

1) How much, in US dollars, was the Bushmaster, as delivered to you? Did you
order it directly from Beresford in GB?

Missed the 2nd question - yes I ordered it directly via the Beresford
web site store. I'm also in the UK so shipping wasn't much. Dunno
how much international shipping costs. He is very responsive - I
ordered last Sunday and it arrived Tuesday morning.

Rob

[Rockinghorse Winner[_8_]]

* It may have been the liquor talking, but
rtweed wrote:

1) How much, in US dollars, was the Bushmaster, as delivered to you? Did you
order it directly from Beresford in GB?

Missed the 2nd question - yes I ordered it directly via the Beresford
web site store. I'm also in the UK so shipping wasn't much. Dunno
how much international shipping costs. He is very responsive - I
ordered last Sunday and it arrived Tuesday morning.

Rob


According to the literature on the web site it was designed with streaming
audio in mind. As a general purpose DAC, it probably suffices well enough,
but personally I can't see paying 40.00 shipping for a 250.00 DAC.

Terry
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[Andrew Haley]

rtweed wrote:
I've just had delivery of a Beresford Bushmaster DAC: Stanley
Beresford's latest and greatest.

Just to be clear - I have no commercial relationship with Stanley's
company, but I've been interested in his DACs since purchasing his
excellent and low-cost 7520 model some years ago.

Do you know what's in there? I looked at the web site but couldn't
find any technical info.

Andrew.

[rtweed]

On Jul 8, 4:50pm, Andrew Haley
wrote:
rtweed wrote:
I've just had delivery of a Beresford Bushmaster DAC: Stanley
Beresford's latest and greatest.

Just to be clear - I have no commercial relationship with Stanley's
company, but I've been interested in his DACs since purchasing his
excellent and low-cost 7520 model some years ago.

Do you know what's in there? I looked at the web site but couldn't
find any technical info.

Andrew.

Apparently the DAC chip is a WM8524

Here's some info Stanley provided on the Art of Sound forum, cut and
pasted verbatim which may help answer your question:

"As mentioned in an earlier post, the Bushmster is based on all the
good ideas and mods of the previous designs, plus some new ones. There
are no muting relays and their driver circuits. There is also no line
output output stage. So no line output opamps and associated caps.
It's a DC line output after all so no caps in the signal path to the
output RCA sockets. There is also no variable output. The input
selector circuit has also been simplified from a multi transistor,
latching circuit, and selector diodes, to a microcontroller . And yes,
I have used SMD where possible. They proved to be far less noisy in
the TC-7510. The power supply is also far more compact due to the use
of the latest generation LDO regulators. Those things are a mere
fraction in size to the 78XX regulators that they replace.
The receiver and DAC chips are also far smaller in footprint. The
board has also been laid out so that each section is as far away as
possible from any other section. This helps to reduce the possibility
of noise bleeding into adjacent circuitry."