[headshrinker2]

Evening fellow Brystoners,
Has anybody had the chance to directly compare BDP-1 with PC/Mac + hiFace Evo?

[HAL]

Just to clarify, are you asking about the PC/MAC with an M2Tech HiFace or the M2Tech Evo?

[headshrinker2]

Hal,
I am specifically wondering about comparision between BDP-1 and PC/MAC with M2TECH hiFace EVO.  If you look on the M2TECH website, the correct name for the EVO (which everybody calls it around the forums) is actually hiFACE EVO.

Just to clarify, are you asking about the PC/MAC with an M2Tech HiFace or the M2Tech Evo?

[ferenc_k]

I have BDP-1 and HiFace Evo with a Paul Hynes power supply and a 27 inch i7 iMac connected to a Devialet DAC/amp through its AES/EBU input.  The BDP-1 is a bit smoother, the Evo has a bit more boogie. It depends on the music and album which you like better, I think they have roughly the same value. The mPod is a very good iPod app to remote the BDP-1, someway it is even more useable than the Apple Remote. The iMac and the EVO is connected to the Devialet from another room, using an Icron cat5e, Cat6 USB2 extender, so it means there is no computer in the room when I am listening music from the iMac and I use the latest Amarra and Audirvana as a player software. You can not go wrong with any of the solutions, the BDP-1 probably simpler if you can live with the bit limited storage capacity of it, against the much more expandable iMac/HiFace Evo. I am using a very silent Toshiba mobil 320 GB drive on the BDP-1 which is mounted on the iMac as well through the share of the BDP-1, it is very easy to copy files to it from the few TBs of storage on the iMac.

[headshrinker2]

Thanks very much for the reply.  If the BDP-1 is essentially a friendly computer inside a box, comparing traditional computer options (along with optimal interfaces) seems logical.  I imagine I could happily live with either a laptop/computer or BDP-1 to play digital files. For a guy like me, I am primarily interested in how they compare sonically. 

I have BDP-1 and HiFace Evo with a Paul Hynes power supply and a 27 inch i7 iMac connected to a Devialet DAC/amp through its AES/EBU input.  The BDP-1 is a bit smoother, the Evo has a bit more boogie. It depends on the music and album which you like better, I think they have roughly the same value. The mPod is a very good iPod app to remote the BDP-1, someway it is even more useable than the Apple Remote. The iMac and the EVO is connected to the Devialet from another room, using an Icron cat5e, Cat6 USB2 extender, so it means there is no computer in the room when I am listening music from the iMac and I use the latest Amarra and Audirvana as a player software. You can not go wrong with any of the solutions, the BDP-1 probably simpler if you can live with the bit limited storage capacity of it, against the much more expandable iMac/HiFace Evo. I am using a very silent Toshiba mobil 320 GB drive on the BDP-1 which is mounted on the iMac as well through the share of the BDP-1, it is very easy to copy files to it from the few TBs of storage on the iMac.

[James Tanner]

Thanks very much for the reply.  If the BDP-1 is essentially a friendly computer inside a box, comparing traditional computer options (along with optimal interfaces) seems logical.  I imagine I could happily live with either a laptop/computer or BDP-1 to play digital files. For a guy like me, I am primarily interested in how they compare sonically.

Hi HS

The review coming out in the Absolute Sound on the BDP-1 in the September 2011 issue will give you good insight into the sound quality of the BDP-1 vs other more traditional computer systems.

james