Hey James,
Please allow me a more fundamental question, I hope you won't take bad on me:
Ive been playing with Pi's at the place here, in several setups and use-cases. A few in Home automation systems, Home-Assistant to be precise, and, I must confess, 2 in HifiBerry setups for throwing a garden party .... (sorry...)
The HifiBerry's never got to work, and were replaced twice. In the first system the Pi board was faulty, the second try made the HifiBerry go down on 1 channel. Within a few hours...
The Home-Assistant setups are rather fragile too, especially in warmer situations as I have been able to establish. We have a rather warm summer, and 1 of the Pi's is installed in the attic which is up to 40 degrees celsius these days. Had to install heat sinks on the processor and lan connector for it to not stop functioning (processor temp over 80 degrees C).
Having a more than simple setup asks for a more robust computer for Home-Assistant than the Pi, which runs into frequent timing issues along the way.
That being the case, I was wondering how Bryston could reliably make the BDP-Pi and BryFi, based on these same boards (I've tested BDP3 and 3+ now, so not the 2). You must have changed a great deal on those boards.
Not talking about the power supply here, Ive had dedicated ones too, especially for the HifiBerry setup.
Again, please don't take this as critique of any kind, Im simply wondering how this educational board, which it obviously is, can form a safe base for professional products like yours and other industry leading manufacturers.
Thanks,
Marius