MEMO - Bryston Customer Feedback
SUBJECT - Bryston/Martin Logan/Torus Demo System In Montreal October 23rd, 2009
Hi All,
Please see below comments by the staff of UHF Magazine (
www.uhfmag.com/) regarding the Bryston/Martin Logan CLX/Torus demo system displayed at the recent 2009 Montreal Audio Show by our dealer 'Son Ideal.'
Carmen and Mark Touring the show!
"We walked into another large room and were greeted by Frank Sinatra's voice in full swing. The front and middle parts of that system were exclusively Bryston models, the BCD-1 CD player and BDA External DAC, the BP26/MPS-2 preamp leading to a pair of hefty 28B-SST mono amps. The speakers were the new Martin-Logan CLX Speakers (the curved electrostatic panel handling frequencies above 360Hz), and all those happy units enjoyed clean AC power from Torus Isolation Transformers.
Frank Sinatra's voice and band loved it. Stevie Ray Vaughan then sang Tin Pan Alley. "Do we have to go elsewhere"? asked Marc. I asked to hear American Fantasy, a homage to Leonard Bernstein,s West Side Story played live by the Safri Duo of percussionists joined by two pianos. The last track, America, starts quietly with the four musicians clapping in a complex rhythm, each occupying a clear location on the stage, each pair of hands sounding different from the others. On most systems the clapping of each pair of hands sound all the same, and the space between them disappears.
It was also wonderful to hear the whole piece build up into full percussive power cheered by an extreme piano frenzy, reaching the final climax with a huge bass drum band as the audience exploded in fireworks of applause.
Wish you were here!
Mark then wanted to listen to the opening of Mozart's Nachtmusik and I could see him nodding along, smiling widely. "We can tell the double basses are located in the back," he sad pointing to the far side of the stage. "Not near the violins playing in the front."
