From: DW
Sent: November-04-10 10:07 AM
To: James Tanner
Subject: BDP-1 - Impressions
Hi James:
I am getting more comfortable with the Bryston BDP-1 Digital Player each day, and I'm struggling to try to explain what it has done for my audio system.
My recently-purchased Bryston BDA-1 improved the sound in all ways, as did my new Torus CS15. Better sound-stage, more clarity, more visceral -- great and easily discernible improvements.
The BDP-1 Digital Player has done something else -- it's not a dramatic, in-your-face improvement, but it's done something far more important. If you listen carefully, each instrument, every voice, has better articulation, as if some subtle addition has been made to every note. The overall feeling is that everything is, dare I say it, more life-like, but more significantly, more musical. It sounds better than listening to CDs. Indeed, while the sound of the high resolution (24/96) files that come with the BDP-1 is very good, it is only marginally better than the sound of files ripped from CDs into a lossless audio codec (format). In other words, there's no need to rush out and try to find high resolution files for this reason -- your digital files collection is completely transformed by the BDP-1.
I was an earlier adopter of the use of digital files played through my audiophile system. In my view, the BDP-1 is a break-through product. To use a rough analogy, even if you now listen to digital files, using the BDP-1 to play them is like going from ordinary TV to HDTV.
I'm altogether delighted and rush to my music room every day to listen to this marvelous transformation. The bottom line, and the highest compliment to Bryston, is that I really don't want to hear my digital files any other way. As for my CDs, they can continue to gather more dust. Anyone need an extra CD player?
DW from B.C.
