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Industry Circles => Bryston Limited => Topic started by: DJ OTTOmatik on 7 Apr 2019, 05:05 pm
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Hey all looking for advice. currently i use a Bryston sp1.7 with a bda1 connected to usb for pc audio using j river. Im thinking of upgrading to the sp3. sonically will the sp3 be any better then what i am doing now. will 2 channel audio over hdmi or usb be better thne the sp1.7/bda1 combo. can i expect sonic improvements for movies over hdmi, is dts hd master or tru hd audio that much better then dts, and DD. it will cost me about 3 g's after is sell the 1.7 and the bda1 to do the upgrade.
thanks
shawn
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I came from a sp1.7 to a sp3, but have no experience with the bda1. My observations:
- sp3 is much better sounding than sp1.7
- sp3 can support HD audio formats - in theory better and also up to 7.1 channels, but will depend on the rest of your system
- for critical stereo music, I used to have a PC over HDMI to sp3 but heard big improvement with a sotm renderer over USB
- original sp3 had a usb limited to 2 channels 48kHz, there is an upgrade that supports multi-channel and higher rates
- if intending to use video pass-through over hdmi, original sp3 could not support 4k video, there is an upgrade
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Hey all looking for advice. currently i use a Bryston sp1.7 with a bda1 connected to usb for pc audio using j river. Im thinking of upgrading to the sp3. sonically will the sp3 be any better then what i am doing now. will 2 channel audio over hdmi or usb be better thne the sp1.7/bda1 combo. can i expect sonic improvements for movies over hdmi, is dts hd master or tru hd audio that much better then dts, and DD. it will cost me about 3 g's after is sell the 1.7 and the bda1 to do the upgrade.
thanks
shawn
DD and DTS are both lossy formats. DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby True HD are lossless formats.
As I understood it, the DAC quality in the SP3 was on par with the BDA-1. So, all of your digital sources should sound comparable to a BDA-1. But the SP3 should be a nice step up from the analog section of the SP1.7. So, you get a multi-channel version of the BDA-1 as well as an improved pre-amp, PLUS lossless decoding for movies (that support the format).
- Garrett
If you enjoy movies and especially the audio, I'd argue its a no-brainer.
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Thanks for the replys, sorry i didnt get bact sooner ive been away. so im getting closer to pulling the trigger on the sp3. one question though, does anyone know if the sp3 will decode a dts hd ma file playing from a pc in mkv format. i rip all my b rays to pc then play thru j river. i have successfully done this on a newer rotel that was loaned to me but would like to know if the sp3 will do this as well.