That's a meticulous review by Philip -- congrats to Bryston.
Interestingly, like this BCD-3 review, I've compared my BCD-1 alone with it hooked to my BDA-1, as transport. I have a hell of a time hearing differences on my best CDs in my system. For me, that's good news -- I can use BCD-1 as it was intended -- a stand-alone CDP (and a superb one), and thereby remove an extra conversion step (and cable) in the audio chain.