Recent content by Porknocker

I have two of the Touch, and one SB3. The only way I am going to part with them is when they go dead. There is nothing on the market right now that can do all of what the Touch managed to achieve years ago.

I once read somewhere that Beresford offered a discount to What HiFi forum posters as part of the fact that the Beresford TC-7510 etc were reviewed by What HiFi. Unfortunately I can't find the forum post where I first read it. I already bought a Caiman, but I wish that I had remembered the...

If you are playing back a video stream from the internet, then expect such problems from time to time. The audio stream is not guaranteed to be bit perfect on such occasions, and neither is the data rate of the stream. This will cause the DAC chip to switch in and out as it tries to lock onto...

I have my turntable indirectly plugged into my Caiman MKII DAC. I bought an ADC from eBay, which is connected to one of the LINE monitoring output on my amp. The truntable is plugged into the PHONO input on the amp. The TOSLINK output of the ADC is connected to my DAC. The LINE output from the...

A good headphone amp is a MUST if you have a set or two of excellent headphones. I have a DAC with a headphone socket, but it cannot compete against the pure excitement of listening the my recently bought Beresford Capella headphone amp. I even find myself listening a lot more to my headphones...

It is very hard to know how these B&W will sound in your room. I have had a wide range of B&W speakers over the years, but in my music room the ported B&W design sounded boomy and the bass sounded like it was delayed. So now I use a completely enclosed design. The Naim amp can sound far too...

I have been using MediaMonkey for years now. I even found an app to get it to work with my Squeezebox Touch. The ability to experiment with different sound drivers on the fly is an added bonus. My library has in excess of 45,000 entries. They range from humble low res mp3, all the way up to...

I got the Caiman MKII, and also theri new Capella headphone amp as well. My impression of the Caiman II is that it should have a wider base of owners. The level of detail, imaging, dynamics, and analogue presentation is once of the best I have ever heard from any DAC. I only decided to really...

I don't have a Sonos myself but one of my neighbours has. I tried it out with my own DAC, which is the new Caiman MKII, becaus emy neighbour wanted to find out as well if he could get more out of his Sonos. For music up to 48kHz the Sonos showed foot tapping marked improvements with the Caiman...

I bought from their home hifi website. But I think that they must have been updating their website in the last few days. I noticed a new headphone amplifier there today that was not there last Friday. The headphone amp looks good! I might order one under their 10 day trial policy this week. I...

The only decent DAC with a decent headphone output below that price is the new Beresford Caiman MKII (TC-7534). I bought the first Caiman after reading about it in a 2009 review in WHF. And boy, did that first Caiman turn out to be a legend or what! So I was very much interested in finding ut...