Voiced to what room,
Tiled wash room,gymnasium,living room,bedroom,outdoors,anchoic chamber.
IMPOSSIBLE EVERY ROOM Is DIFFERENT,just like people’s opinions.
Neutral works for me and yes my room is treated and yes I have Bryston speakers A1s ect ect.
I wasn't smart enough to choose the A1's.
The A1s (and A2s) are probably great speakers since the design follows the original Model T concept and is how things should be done when considering a less expensive version that sacrifices practically nothing in comparison other than the LF response and useability vs room size (this is obviously a crock that I'm trying to foist on the impressionable) when there is no residential listening room that needs the Model T over the A1.
If the line array design is why it sounds great then obviously the mini a,mini t and middle t bear no resemblance to it compared to the A1/A2.
As an example, it was thought that the middle/mini t could be sold as a t-rex system to simulate a quasi line array. If this served some purpose other than to further accentuate their design faults I don't know what it could be. Also, the mirror imaged driver configuration isn't like the Model T and they can't both be right. If you wanted to 'experiment', why not put two TC1 centers on end for half the price and not have to worry about an avalanche.
This may be just my impression, I have noticed over the years that many owners have very positive opinions of Bryston speakers (mini and middle t only?) on the one hand then for some reason say they have decided to sell them and never offer any explanation for doing so.
Maybe room interaction and the design of the mini a/t, middle t is more of a 'thing' that's easily overcome with the Model T, A1/A2 design. As it is my middle t's and me suit a 10 ft. triangle in a 22 x13 ft. room and nowhere else and I have tried 14 different setup positions over the months. If the claim is that the tonality of the speakers never changes with respect to room position, that's true, as far as coherence related to phase or time anomalies (which don't exist with nearfield listening) the room dominates in a bad way with the result being a sweet spot only inches wide rather than the couch wide locked on imaging claimed by the reviewers and many here on the forum. These speakers have an uncanny ability to be completely incoherent with little effort on my part.
Maybe there is a defect with my speakers that has been there since I got them. Not doing something about it says more about my foolish adherence to reputation making me think that it must be something else other than my speakers causing the problem. That is, even if it is a defect and replacing the tweeters (or whatever) solved the problem I would be no less disappointed if it did not make a difference. At this level of performance expectation if there was a defect I would have them repaired, sell them immediately and never go near the company again.
That's just speculation, measurements made show no obvious problems, both speakers measure the same and reasonably uniform at the LP. BTW, when you do a nearfield measurement (1” at just below tweeter on axis) as you would see for a typical online review it's amazing how flat the measurement is and still not account for what I hear. They are exactly as designed, I fear.
A member with an AC1 center channel recently described a problem with poor off axis sound, that echoes what I have been hearing with my middle t's, which was solved by replacing both tweeters. I hope there is nothing generic about his problem. It could be a case of saving $90 to upgrade his tweeters and the ordeal was nothing more than a hoax. (He removed the screens on the tweeters and thought that it may have sounded better when his complaint was that his measurements show a severe rolloff after 12khz. He also decided to add some stuffing to the enclosure 'for good measure' and heard a difference).
Another member made the cogent observation that this upgrade:
“Sent my 4BST in today for the Tier 1 upgrade. Can't wait to see how she looks and sounds when I get her back.” ( how could it not be a great idea…)
Will have this result:
“The difference will be shocking in the best possible way.” (when someone else thinks the same way I do!)
This is just to emphasize the crazy shit hyperbole that people post to forums and that I'm not one of them. My personal descriptions are straight-ahead listening not confirmation bias or agenda driven.
So, is the Middle-T speaker lame compared to the Bryston A1? They both can't be right, right? For that matter, is the Mini A and a decent pair of subs better than the Middle-T? Stranger things have happened.
