[Marius]

Hi James,

Just read the manual..... in it you state the locking XLR's are already an option. Had I known that, I would have ordered those. 
Is there a way to retrofit that? Or exchange for a factory delivered lock-version would be even better?

Thanks, Marius

We could offer locking as an option I guess.  Most of the new amplifiers do not use the locking.

james

[James Tanner]

Hi James,

Just read the manual..... in it you state the locking XLR's are already an option. Had I known that, I would have ordered those. 
Is there a way to retrofit that? Or exchange for a factory delivered lock-version would be even better?

Thanks, Marius

Hi Marus

Give Mike Pickett an email on that question - mpickett@bryston.com

James

[Marius]

Hi James,

Been playing this for hours now http://youtu.be/4Nk-ZfiBFDE

I must confess the hd800 and the Bha1 have been my most disturbing experience up to now. This is by far the most gripping, revelatory and intimate musical experience I've had so far. Words can not express my feelings right now. Schubert never released this kind of detaching emotion. You've wet my eyes seriously. Lonely island priority number 1.

Thank you so much.

Marius

[James Tanner]

Hi James,

Been playing this for hours now http://youtu.be/4Nk-ZfiBFDE

I must confess the hd800 and the Bha1 have been my most disturbing experience up to know. This is by far the most gripping revelatory and intimate musical experience I've had so far. Words can not express my feelings right now. Schubert never released this kind of detaching emotion. You've wet my eyes seriously. Lonely island priority number 1.

Thank you so much.

Marius

WOW - I know what you mean - once in a while I get a RUSH and sometimes tears as well 

[mkaiser]

Welcome to the wonderful world of hi-quality headphone amps and headphones folks. 

Mark

[Joker]

WOW - I know what you mean - once in a while I get a RUSH and sometimes tears as well 

I took the advice from an earlier forum comment and bought "Intimate Ella", and listened to Beth Rowley "Little Dreamer" and Shelby Lynne "Just a little Lovin'" yesterday as well ... Halleluja!!! Fallen of the chair, what a performance of BHA & HD800!

James, with the BHA you first time seemed to have published power consumption, which is 50 Watt here. Can you pls let me know what that is for the BDA & BDP respectively? Thanks a lot!

[bobNL]

Hi Joker,

So glad you liked Ella's greatest.
Will give Beth Rowley and Shelby Lynne a try !
I am still amazed (and moved) by the BHA/HD800 on a daily basis.

Cheers,
Bob

[Joker]

Hi James,

Been playing this for hours now http://youtu.be/4Nk-ZfiBFDE

I must confess the hd800 and the Bha1 have been my most disturbing experience up to now. This is by far the most gripping, revelatory and intimate musical experience I've had so far. Words can not express my feelings right now. Schubert never released this kind of detaching emotion. You've wet my eyes seriously. Lonely island priority number 1.

Thank you so much.

Marius, what an overwhelming comment, phantastic! I did a little searching for the title you mentioned in Amazon, but seem to only get MP3s. Though this doesn't necessarily belong into this forum, would you pls have a reco for a CD? Thank you!

Marius

[Marius]

sure, here you go: http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Wanderer-Fantasy-Sonata-Brendel/dp/B00000E3T9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353259980&sr=8-1&keywords=brendel+960

a totally smashing and riveting CD, and if you love Schubert, just buy the complete set of his recordings, http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Piano-Works-Alfred-Brendel/dp/B00000E48F/ref=sr_1_9?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1353260244&sr=1-9&keywords=brendel+schubert
 they're all at the summit of performances. Moments Musicaux, Impromptus, and Klavierstücke.

Hope you will enjoy,

Marius

[Joker]

sure, here you go: http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Wanderer-Fantasy-Sonata-Brendel/dp/B00000E3T9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353259980&sr=8-1&keywords=brendel+960

a totally smashing and riveting CD, and if you love Schubert, just buy the complete set of his recordings, http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-Piano-Works-Alfred-Brendel/dp/B00000E48F/ref=sr_1_9?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1353260244&sr=1-9&keywords=brendel+schubert
 they're all at the summit of performances. Moments Musicaux, Impromptus, and Klavierstücke.

Hope you will enjoy,

Marius

Excellent, thank you, Marius.

[Marius]

Hi James,

Whats this Headphone stand you posted on Facebook?



Marius

[James Tanner]

Hi James,

Whats this Headphone stand you posted on Facebook?



Marius

Just a drawing our graphics guy at Bryston did.

james

[Joker]

Hi Joker,

So glad you liked Ella's greatest.
Will give Beth Rowley and Shelby Lynne a try !
I am still amazed (and moved) by the BHA/HD800 on a daily basis.

Cheers,
Bob

Hi Bob, enough of music recos here but you might love Melody Gardot "Worrisome Heart" and Curtis Stigers "Let's go out tonight" then as well.

I find it just amazing how the BHA-HD800 combo delivers from single voice / piano over small "combo" to large symphony orchestra!

[bobNL]

Indeed!

Melody's "Worrisome Heart" was the CD that convinced me to follow the Bryston path in the first place, a BCD/B100 at the time (her latest CD I find extremely disappointing).
The BHA takes this to another level completely, almost makes you want to reach out and touch her.

Cheers,
Bob

 

[larevoj]

Very nice for "just" some drawings!...any intention for Bryston headphones?? 

Just a drawing our graphics guy at Bryston did.

james

[James Tanner]

Very nice for "just" some drawings!...any intention for Bryston headphones?? 

Hi

We looked into the headphone idea but felt we would leave that market to the current experts.

James

[Marius]

Hi James,

fiddling with the crosstalk on the bp26, suddenly i realized that other than connecting the bha1 to the tape-to on the bp26, I could connect it to the rca outs on the BDA1 also. Missing the analog sources in that case of course, but there would be no need for the bp26 to power up.

Would there be any difference between the two choices? I'd be tempted to believe that 2 machines less, would mean a better signal?

Thanks,
Marius

[James Tanner]

Hi James,

fiddling with the crosstalk on the bp26, suddenly i realized that other than connecting the bha1 to the tape-to on the bp26, I could connect it to the rca outs on the BDA1 also. Missing the analog sources in that case of course, but there would be no need for the bp26 to power up.

Would there be any difference between the two choices? I'd be tempted to believe that 2 machines less, would mean a better signal?

Thanks,
Marius

That would work fine as long as all your sources go through the BDA

James

[Vipers]

Marius, bobNL or anyone else with a BHA-1 and HD800 combo I've got a quick question if you don't mind.

Over the last few weeks I've been running in all my new headphones for the shop and this evening I thought enough was enough and I had a little shootout, HD800's v LCD-2, both cracking headphones with very different personalities, but it was more the BHA-1 I have a question on, I'm using high gain fed by RCA's from a Naim streamer at the moment, until my BDA-1/BDP-1 pairs up with the BHA-1 when my version 2's arrive, anyway, on the BHA-1 I found that when moving the volume from say 9 o'clock to 4 o'clock there isn't much change in the overall volume with the biggest change happening in the last 10%, does anyone else find this? in fact with the HD800's and LCD-2's you have to be on almost maximum volume to get what I call a good listening level, and with the HiFiMan HE-6's there really isn't enough volume to drive them properly.

My BHA-1 has had a problem in the past and I'm wondering if this lack of apparent volume and subtle volume control is correct compared to others? or I guess I may just be deaf

What volume do most people listen at?

Cheers,

[zeiter]

I had same result as you ,  almost nothing happening at all in that range when I had my HD800 ( just sold them ), and I thought it was due to the 300 ohms impedance.  I did not have this problem with my Denon AH-D7000 as they were 25 ohms, and I think 107 or 108 db sensitivity, so by 9 position, had plenty of loudness, and did not need to go higher. I just received yesterday my LCD3, and put them on burn in with my BP6 pre, as I did not want my BHA-1 to run very hot for a couple of days, can't comment on them yet in that range.