Question for James: BP-16C Volume Control

jethro · « **on:** 29 Jun 2005, 11:42 pm »

There's a press release on Bryston's site announcing a new pre-amp for those who haven't seen the announcement:

http://www.bryston.ca/pdfs/MemoBP16PREAMP_SST.pdf

James,

Firstly, I hope you don't mind me posting the URL.

The announcement says that the pre-amp will have a new volume control. Could you exapnd on this a bit ?

Thanks.

James Tanner · « **Reply #1 on:** 1 Jul 2005, 10:04 pm »

Hi Jethro,

This is a Dan question - the engineer behind the B100.

james

James Tanner · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 Jul 2005, 03:07 pm »

Hi jethro,

Sorry it took so long on this.
This is from a recent German review on the B100.

"There are a number of clever audiophile design features including a very modern digitally controlled volume control using a resistance network on a chip. Mind you, this technology, in reference to the signal path, is located in the analog section and offers many advantages, for instance perfect channel balance, a simple integrated balance adjustment without additional parts, practically zero adjustment noises, first class behavior in reference to noise and distortion, as well as adjustment via software.

james

jethro · « **Reply #3 on:** 22 Jul 2005, 12:45 am »

Thanks for the info James.

Since the volume control is digitally controlled, have you though of adding the feature to have the volume return to a preset value at power-on ?

James Tanner · « **Reply #4 on:** 22 Jul 2005, 12:07 pm »

Hi jethro,

I assume we could do that in software but I will check with Dan.

james

James Tanner · « **Reply #5 on:** 22 Jul 2005, 02:41 pm »

HI jethro,

Yes it would be possible to have a preset volume. We just have not written the code for it yet.

james