Hi James;
The most memorable story about Bryston amps I can think of was when a customer brought in a pair of 3Bs a number of years ago. They had been through a house fire, and had fallen into the basement, along with the entire remaining structure of the house.
When we saw them, the black anodizing had been burned off the metal, the whole amplifiers were aluminum color. The interiors of the amps had collected soot a sixteenth of an inch thick, they had sat underwater for a week until being dragged out of the basement and brought in by the owner. They had dried out by then, but they looked absolutely horrific.
The owner asked if there was anything we could do with them. We plugged them in, and they worked fine. They still met spec in all regards. The owner took them home as conversation pieces. Presumably they are still playing music today.
CWR