Quote: Originally Posted by Herandu Do a search at http://www.hifiwigwam.com/ and you should find all the info you need. Here's a link to a review of the Mk.3 Beresford that I posted on the hifiwigwam site in May this year - http://www.hifiwigwam.com/forum7/15325.html This has...

Quote: Originally Posted by fraseyboy Ok then... Well how would it compare to the M-Audio Audiophile USB or the Edirol UA25? Errr ... this could go on for a long time ..... ... how many DACs are there in the world ??

Quote: Originally Posted by fraseyboy Lol good to see people are buying them. I'd rather let other people be guinea pigs for this DAC, than buy one myself and find that I don't like it So exactly how many furry cute l'il rodents do you need to see squeaking the same tune to...

There's an interesting thread on a UK forum. The thread was started by me (and my enthusiasm for the Beresford is well documented here on headfi) - but one poster says he has upgraded his system by going from the GBP£2k ($4K !!) Linn Ikemi to the Mk.III Beresford. Now that's a stunning...

Quote: Originally Posted by Quicky So, what I want to know is, does the Beresford MKIII beat the Moodlabs? I don't know - I haven't heard the Moodlabs. But I have directly compared the MkII and III Beresford. The III is substantially better. And I really liked the II. The...

Quote: Originally Posted by pftrvlr The headphone amp in the 7510 sounds pretty bad to me. A decent dedicated amp is a must to enjoy the 7510 fully. Well, YMMV of course, but using my 200GBP (about $400 these days) Sony MDR-CD1700 headphones I think the Beresford sounds...

Quote: Originally Posted by fraseyboy I am probably going to be buying the MKIII 7510. Just one question: How is the headphone jack output on it? I read a review of the MK1 saying that it works better amped from Line. Is this fixed in the MKIII? There is some fixed level hiss...

Quote: Originally Posted by rampz its sounds a little muted compared to my current cd player, i guess it needs to be burned in. how many hours am i looking at before i make judgement? Are you using the optical TOSLINK inputs? To me they sound significantly inferior to the co-ax...

Quote: Originally Posted by rampz its sounds a little muted compared to my current cd player, i guess it needs to be burned in. how many hours am i looking at before i make judgement? If it's like the Mk.II it will take about 2 days playing to get to, say, 85/90% of its final...

Quote: Originally Posted by Herandu I love the sound of the MKII and didn't think any upgrade would extract anything substantial out of it. I am however quite amazed how much more I can hear when switching between the two. If the MKII was about detail, then the MKIII sounds to me at...

Quote: Originally Posted by pftrvlr Got the TC-7510 today. It is tiny! True. But musically, it's a Giant !

Quote: Originally Posted by john_ops Let's quickly go back to something I *thought* I saw written a while back - the idea that Stanley is working on a digital pre-amp. Presumably this falls into the same category as the Benchmark or Lavry, in that it has a DAC with an analog volume...

Stanley Beresford has started using me as one of his Beta Testers, I guess because of my enthusiasm for his products and because he seems to value my ears! He recently sent me a pre-prototype digital cable that I thoroughly dis-liked, and I told him so , so he's certainly not after a "yes man"...

Quote: Originally Posted by thubble Looks like the analog out just needed burn-in, after all. The midrange is back and better than ever, and the instrument separation is amazing. The bass is tight but smooth, and there's not even a hint of treble harshness. I'll be happy with this setup...

Quote: Originally Posted by thubble I made myself an impedance adapter by putting a 120-ohm resistor in series with each channel. This completely gets rid of the hiss, and tightens up the bass as well. It doesn't go as loud as before, but that's probably good for my hearing...

Hi thubble - bear with the 7510 midrange for a while longer - it takes at least 50 hours play time to really start to open up - in fact, some users say it takes a couple hundred hours to get near its best.

Quote: Originally Posted by hortiholic These are in some cases the same people who have been hyping the Beresford on this and other forums. Oh dear - we're not going back to this "shill" business are we? - I had hoped that was all sorted & laid to rest by now. And the whole...

Quote: Originally Posted by thubble but the mids are recessed and grainy with no detail. I'll give it some time to see if this improves. Yup - that's how it sounds before a day or 3 of run-in. A little patience is required here - you really don't want to make any judgements yet...

Quote: Originally Posted by digitalmind Ok, here we go. Using optical since the Beresford came with an optical cable. I'll also use coaxial later. . IME, and that of the AVReview article, the Beresford TOSLINK optical cable/connection is rather coarse sounding. IMO...

The first "official" review of the Beresford DAC is here : http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/artic...ttr=editorial4 Sadly, they get the price wrong by over a factor of 12 ! - They quote £1,250 - I've sent the editor of AVReview an email about it.

JBL L110 speakers - wow, they sound LIVE !

Quote: Originally Posted by hortiholic The TC-7510 dac arrived this morning. Already I'm concluding it was worth the money -- it's giving me significantly more resolution and imaging .... It doesn't have as much resonance as I'd like yet -- the sound is sort of pinched and thin and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hershon2000 " lets just say it retailed for $1500 10 years ago & had great reviews, I thought it totally sucked on my system. It lowered my volume I'm guess 25% (which I obviously could compensate for but wasn't expecting) & made the music sound dull, stiff &...

Quote: Originally Posted by lewdog Which would provide superior sound quality at that price--a stand alone player or a dac? My experience of older CDPs is they make fairly boring sounding transports. A bit slow for my more upbeat taste (ymmv, of course). If it were me spending...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hershon2000 I just received this expensive (for me) older highly rated DAC What DAC are you talking about?