[Bugsy]

Yeah, but how much?  The reason why I say this is the Naim Uniti is a Nait 5i, CD5i and the other stuff in the same box, yet my dealer and I heard no difference between the Nait 5i and CD5i combo vs playing the same CD with the Uniti.

Just throwing it out there.  I know it wouldn't happen, but I think it would be a great way to get a new crowd interested in Bryston.  The Naim Uniti has been flying off the shelves of a lot of dealers.

As James said Performance would suffer, and at Byrston that is a no go from the start. Bryston makes extremly well built produces and lets keep it that way!

[Ozi]

With all respect to Naim, Bryston is different company than Naim is. Isn't a differences what makes life beautiful? 

[wilsonij]

Forgot to mention I'm also using jitter correction on the ripping.

How are you doing this ?

I've found that ripping using EAC to FLAC is pretty much identical to the original...

[Mag]

How are you doing this ?

I've found that ripping using EAC to FLAC is pretty much identical to the original...

When extracting wav files from cd I use the Jitter Correction option is Nero. I can't say for sure this is the reason for better audio playback. But I don't have another good explanation as to why it sounds better than my standalone burner.

You can read about Seek Jitter from compact discs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter

[Mag]

Had a chance to play some concert dvds yesterday. To my surprise the BDA-1 doesn't process the dts track. So I had to use the stereo track at 48k sampling rate. I was able to switch back and forth between dts and stereo and I would say that the two were on par with each other. There was more bass from the dts but that might be considered boomy whereas with the BDA-1 was clean and preferable to listening to.

I know that this is not high resolution but its a good indication that higher sampling rates such as hi rez would put it in another league of sound entirely compared to cd 44.1 sample resolution. 

[Mag]

Having a BDA-1 I've switched to listening to random tracks in jukebox mode. As good as that is I find that at the end of the night, I don't feel that I had a good listening session fix.

So last night I went back to playing two complete albums. I felt fulfilled at the end of the night, had my fix, and went to bed. I guess I need album continuity to get satisfaction.

[Mag]

Lately I've been using my Sony NS9100ES as a transport, connected by Monster cable toslink with video display off. The sound is to die for, a warm natural sound that creates this soundscape that is very pleasing to listen too especially with hard rock! It is so good I've kinda abandon using my laptop as good as that is.

However with more use the 9100 seems to be locking up more frequently on various cd-r. If the thing quits I may be forced to purchase a Sony 5400 which I've read is even better than previous Sony players.

[Napalm]

As James said Performance would suffer, and at Byrston that is a no go from the start.

Yeah, so here we go with splitting the product in two boxes without a sync clock between them.

Nap.

[Anonamemouse]

Yeah, so here we go with splitting the product in two boxes without a sync clock between them.

Nap.

+1

[alexone]

James,

the BDA-1 has green led for the incoming signal (sample rate). would it have been possible to have green led to show the bit depth (16 or 24) ??

al.

[James Tanner]

James,

the BDA-1 has green led for the incoming signal (sample rate). would it have been possible to have green led to show the bit depth (16 or 24) ??

al.

Hi al - not without a redesign.

james

[ian.ameline]

Even with a redesign, it might not be so easy. The spdif spec has room for 24 bits/sample. The only way to tell the bit depth is to monitor the low order bits for non 0 values. There is no flag or indication in the protocol to indicate the bit depth.

The bit rate is easily determined by the frequency that the spdif interface is running at.