[Napalm]

What is the targeted market for the BP-6?

Professional studio or home entertainment?

[James Tanner]

What is the targeted market for the BP-6?

Professional studio or home entertainment?

Hi Napalm

The BP-6 has been around for a while and is really a scaled down version of the BP-26 preamp for those that do not need that many inputs and do not use balanced ins our outputs.  It is much less expensive than the BP-26 as well.  The vast majority of sales are consumer.

james

[Napalm]

May I then suggest a BP-7 which would be a BP-6 + tone controls?

The "purists" camp could always buy the other models.

But "consumers" at large (including myself) generally:

- do not have any control of room size and shape; they have to use the original floor plan of the house

- cannot indulge in extensive room acoustic treatments; they can only go as far as their budget and family will allow

- can rarely listen at "reference level"; it is pretty loud for the average household, so most of the times the Fletcher-Munson curves will apply to what they're hearing

- do not have some other (studio) equipment that would allow control of tone balance 

As a result the tone balance with a "no tone control" system will be nearly always off and the audition under normal household conditions will be largely unsatisfactory.
 

[James Tanner]

May I then suggest a BP-7 which would be a BP-6 + tone controls?

The "purists" camp could always buy the other models.

But "consumers" at large (including myself) generally:

- do not have any control of room size and shape; they have to use the original floor plan of the house

- cannot indulge in extensive room acoustic treatments; they can only go as far as their budget and family will allow

- can rarely listen at "reference level"; it is pretty loud for the average household, so most of the times the Fletcher-Munson curves will apply to what they're hearing

- do not have some other (studio) equipment that would allow control of tone balance 

As a result the tone balance with a "no tone control" system will be nearly always off and the audition under normal household conditions will be largely unsatisfactory.
 

Hi

I agree Bryston is not for everyone given individual specific needs but tone controls etc.  are really not something we want to deal with in our products.

james

[vegasdave]

Hi Napalm

The BP-6 has been around for a while and is really a scaled down version of the BP-26 preamp for those that do not need that many inputs and do not use balanced ins our outputs.  It is much less expensive than the BP-26 as well.  The vast majority of sales are consumer.

james

I use one. It's a great preamp. Great bang for the buck. I suspect it gives up very little to the BP-26.

[jaxwired]

I use one. It's a great preamp. Great bang for the buck. I suspect it gives up very little to the BP-26.

Having owned both I completely agree.   The bp6 is grossly under rated.  Superb sound.   

[vegasdave]

Having owned both I completely agree.   The bp6 is grossly under rated.  Superb sound.   

Thanks. I would agree with that!

[HsvHeelFan]

My old Parasound pre-amp has tone controls on it (center freq is at 100 hz and 1Khz).  It also has a bypass switch, which I always have enabled.

My music server is running JRiver Media Center and Jriver has built-in tone controls as an option on the DSP.

At this point, I'll never need a pre-amp with tone controls on it.  I run JRiver flat (with the EQ DSP capability turned off).  I have played around with the JRiver DSP Eq and it has no imaging or soundstage impact that I can tell.

I haven't look at the JRiver plug-in capability, but it looks like there are a lot of options there.


HsvHeelFan

[Napalm]

My experience is that at low playback levels ("background music") a Bose boombox will sound more pleasing than a "high end" system with no tone controls.

And then we get here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBe7-6rw4M