Beresford Caiman Review

[ashishkesarwani]

Guys - pulled the trigger for Caiman DAC from Stanley. Paid 199.99GBP (15282/- INR) through PayPal.

Congrats Sajith, please give your reviews too, of the same when you recieve it.

 

[gobble]

Guys - pulled the trigger for Caiman DAC from Stanley. Paid 199.99GBP (15282/- INR) through PayPal.

Great! I would love to listen to this DAC at your place one day Sajith!

cheers

 

[cmsajith]

Great! I would love to listen to this DAC at your place one day Sajith!

cheers

Sure. You are always welcome once I setup every thing properly. (It will take some time)

 

[StanleyB]

Stan I'm sure your arrogance needs to be tamed! True Knowledge grows with sharing else it stagnates and is now showing signs.

Nothing to do with arrogance. I used to work in a company not so long ago, where my director got paid ten times more than me. But he always wanted me to do the hard work instead of doing it himself. Eventually both of us got made redundant. I believe that people should get off their xyz and spend time reading up on things, instead of relying on others to chew beforehand so that you can swallow afterwards.

 

[thevortex]

Nothing to do with arrogance. I used to work in a company not so long ago, where my director got paid ten times more than me. But he always wanted me to do the hard work instead of doing it himself. Eventually both of us got made redundant. I believe that people should get off their xyz and spend time reading up on things, instead of relying on others to chew beforehand so that you can swallow afterwards.

Why do we need a forum then, Stanley? The whole point is to help share knowledge and help fellow members out.

If, for every question asked, knowledgeable members were to ask the questioners to get off their behind and seek out the knowledge I am not sure Hifivision would have thrived and become what it is now.

Rant apart - I would genuinely like to know what exactly is different with the Beresford DAC. And how does it compare with some of the other DACs in the market? There are no recent comparisons between the Caiman and other DACs. And a while back I was also on the lookout for differences between the Caiman and a stereo focussed soundcard like the Xonar Essence. Again, another unanswered question.

 

[gobble]

Stan

Will the Caiman work out of box with Linux distro's? I use ubuntu 9.0.4 with 2.6.28 kernel.

Thanks.

Regards

 

[thevortex]

Stan

Will the Caiman work out of box with Linux distro's? I use ubuntu 9.0.4 with 2.6.28 kernel.

Thanks.

Regards

All USB DACs work out of the box with Linux, Gobble. I dont know if it is any different with the Caiman.

 

[gobble]

All USB DACs work out of the box with Linux, Gobble. I dont know if it is any different with the Caiman.

The device-id needs to be in a database in the linux code somewhere. Thats the point I'm trying to make.

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdevcat.php?id=7

I wonder what the device-id for Stan's Caiman is.

Regards

 

[cmsajith]

Hip Hip Hurray..! Today I received my Caiman DAC, still a virgin (not yet connected to any source). Everything went smooth and its so nice to do business with Stan. He also gave me an Optical cable free costing ~14pounds (Thanks Stan) on my personal request. I did not pay any customs duty and delivered to my doorstep (collected by the company technical parcel dept., so didnt have to pay any bribe also)

Posting some initial pics. (Sorry for the crappy mobile low light photos, took from office)

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[unleash_me]

Congratulations Sajit

 

[ashishkesarwani]

Congratulations Sajith, finally you got it, so better late than never. Enjoy it.

 

[cmsajith]

Congratulations Sajith, finally you got it, so better late than never. Enjoy it.

The delay was because of the holidays. The only problem is that there is no way of online tracking in India.

 

[gobble]

Waiting for initial impressions about SQ ...........

Cheers

 

[rallynut]

congrats sajith on the purchase,another one in the beresford camp!!lookin forward to listening impressions.recently got myself a keces da151 mk2 usb dac.managed only ~15 hrs on it so far,would be interesting to do a shootout some time later once units are burned in.enjoy.cheers

 

[heliumflight]

Congrats Sajith! Happy to know that it was a smooth delivery.

--
helium
Amp: Lyrita SET 2A3
Speakers: Vintage B&W DM4
Source: LG DVD + Beresford DAC
Cables: Lyrita's I.C & cables

 

[spirovious]

Congrates from me too.

 

[techgadgets4379]

Congrats Sajith, I have placed an order with Stan today, can't wait to get my hands on the DAC.

 

[audiodelic]

Deciding between the 7520 and the caiman ... presently leaning towards to know what all the wolfson hype is about hope its worth the investment since my reproduction chain is audionengine a5 speakers and audioengine as8 subwoofer i hope the caiman .... its basically the burr brown 1716 8x oversampling vs wolfson 8716 64x oversampling ...any views ?

 

[StanleyB]

i hope the caiman .... its basically the burr brown 1716 8x oversampling vs wolfson 8716 64x oversampling ...any views ?

Have a look at The Digital Impression - The Art of Sound Forum for loads of comments on the Caiman

 

[hemantwaghe]

Have a look at The Digital Impression - The Art of Sound Forum for loads of comments on the Caiman

Hi Stanley
Just a product idea..

why not a DAC with remote ,ahich can replace pre-amp??
And maybe a Phono -Stage built in??

Or I am dreaming too much??