[Slingshotx]

While I may have a dable with EQ I guess I'm not that bothered since I'm not intending to upgrade to the SP2 anytime soon.

I'd rather Bryston be around to honour warranties for another 20 years than sink money into developing fancy features that can be optionally bought, after all this is pretty much what TAG Maclaren did, and it didn't help them much.

Just my personal view, but I'm assuming if it was a 10 minute simple job James would have done it by now.

Slingshot

[MOZ]

I would really like to have the "choice" concerning the EQ thing, i mean, i would pay for a good one !

And Audyssey is part of the options : http://focus.ti.com/lit/ml/sprt377/sprt377.pdf

And i like this one :

"TI's Aureus family of DSPs continues to push the boundaries of quality and performance for home theater processing," said Brian Towne, Senior Vice President at DTS, Inc. "DTS is pleased that TI has designed a high performance and cost effective processor package capable of implementing our new DTS-HD technology. DTS-HD will feature 7.1 lossless audio and is backward compatible with existing DTS decoders. DTS is proud to count TI as one of its key launch partners."

Hope the HDMI/FIREWIRE thing will be out at the end of this year !?
Can't wait to try a good DTS-HD master audio with my SP2 !!!

More here : http://focus.ti.com/docs/pr/pressrelease.jhtml?prelId=sc05171

[nicolasb]

And Audyssey is part of the options : http://focus.ti.com/lit/ml/sprt377/sprt377.pdf

That link is pointing to some stuff about the current generation of Aureus processor. The one Bryston uses in the SP2 is the previous generation (several years old, now): the DA610, not DA710.

Can't wait to try a good DTS-HD master audio with my SP2 !!!

You have no choice but to wait.  

[MOZ]

Are you sure of this one ?
 

Will it support native audio HD formats as well ?

[Bob15]

And Audyssey is part of the options : http://focus.ti.com/lit/ml/sprt377/sprt377.pdf

That link is pointing to some stuff about the current generation of Aureus processor. The one Bryston uses in the SP2 is the previous generation (several years old, now): the DA610, not DA710.
 

Are you serious? Why in the heck would Bryston put Aureus' previous generation in their newest processor.  There must be a good reason.

[nicolasb]

Are you serious? Why in the heck would Bryston put Aureus' previous generation in their newest processor.  There must be a good reason.

The decision to use that chip was taken a long time ago. I have an archived email from Shane Parfit in which he mentioned that Bryston was planning an SP1.7 upgrade, "probably" using the DA610: that was dated mid-January 2003.

It took 3+ years between Bryston deciding to use the chip and their actually managing to get the SP2 out the door. Why it took that long, I wouldn't like to say.

[nicolasb]

Will it support native audio HD formats as well ?

I expect so: it's quite a lot more powerful than the old SP1.7 DSP is. The old SP1.7 chip is rated at 150 MIPs, the DA610 is rated at 1800MIPS (or 1200 MFLOPS). It's the same sort of level of processing power as they've been using in Tag McLaren processors and Denon receivers for the past 3 or 4 years (the dual-SHARC versions of Tag processors that is - they have two DSPs, each of which is rated as 600MFLOPS, plus the old 200 MFLOPS chip as well).

However, you won't be able to get hi-def audio until after the SP2 acquires an HDMI audio input: such formats can't be sent across S/PDIF. The HDMI upgrade (he says, speculating wildly on the basis of absolutely no evidence at all! ) probably won't happen for quite some time. It will also be a back-to-the-factory hardware upgrade, not merely a change in the software. They might also decide to charge for it - I don't know how much.

[sikoniko]

this is why I said it could be an option for those of us who would want it. We would obviously pay for it, but there would be value for us in it.

Lexicon, Classe, soon Anthem and obviously denon and other lower pre/pro's offer some solution.

[mv038856]

Hi there!

A nice feature for the SP-2 would be a more intelligent use of the "remote 12V trigger outputs". Currently, the second output can be assigned to an input (at least, that's what my SP-1 PRO can do). I would suggest to make it possible to assign it to multichannel sound modes.

In a 7.1 setup with an SP1.7/2 there will be most likely at least 2 (Bryston) amps: a bigger one (2-3 channels) for the main speakers and another one for the rest. For stereo only the first amp is needed, for multichannel both are needed. Since there is typically more than one multichannel source in a system and a given input can carry both stereo and multichannel signals the "assign the second remote 12V trigger output to an input" doesn't exaclty meet the requirements in such a case.

The feature described could be implemented in the software without any hardware changes. The current option to tie the second remote 12V trigger out to an input could be kept (e.g. for users that switch on their projector through the 12V trigger out when switching to the DVD input).

To avoid the amps to be switched on and off too often (e.g. when switching from one multichannel source to another), one could implement a delay of a few seconds for the second amp to switch off after a change from a multichannel to a stereo sound mode.

I am considering to implement a functionality like this through my Crestron control system - however, if Bryston could do it in the pre/pro all user could take advantage (and I could save some time and $$    )

Thanks!


Markus

[jethro]

Good idea Markus !

[alpsy]

so are we guessing 12 months or less for next sp2 revision or more?

julie