Listening Tests
Listening Tests
The Beresford DAC was allowed to Burn-in and settle for well over a week before we performed any listening tests.
We offer a subjective set of listening tests using the Beresford TC-7520 for some stock audio task performed on many modern PCs. As your ears and playback gear will undoubtedly vary so will your impressions of this units playback. This is simply our impressions after spending some time testing and using the TC-7520 day to day. Music and sound effects are very hard to describe with words so please consider the tests as subjective opinions.
Usage for Various Audio Tasks
Gaming
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Source: Auzentech Forte 7.1
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Headphones: Sennheiser HD 595
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Amp: T-City Gizmo Class D
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Speakers: AV123 ELT525M
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Cables:
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S/Pdif Cable: Audio Quest VDM-Xi
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Spkr Cables: Ultra Link Matrix 2
We pulled out one of the current gaming champ audio sources from our reference collection and connected up the 7520 using the Audio Quest S/Pdif cable. The idea behind using this card for an S/Pdif source is all the gaming audio processing will be handled by the card and sent digitally to the Beresford DAC for conversion and output to our reference monitors and headphones.
Surround virtualization from CMSS-3D and EAX 1, 2,3,4,5 and OpenAL routines were all produced by the external DAC bypassing the Fortes internal digital to analog converters.
All our tested games sounded excellent through the Beresford TC-7520 DAC,
The gaming audio came through with high detail, wide soundstage and excellent bass response. We will leave out the screen shots and individual descriptions of what we heard in each game. We were more concerned with testing that the gaming effects and headphones virtualization would be offered through the external DAC.
