[Diamond Dog]

Hi DavidV : Welcome ! In the year + in which I have had my BCD-1, I have not experienced the errors you describe. Good luck!

D.D.

[Phil A]

DavidV - welcome.  When I had the BCD-1, I think only one disc, which had over the redbook standard of 74 minutes was a problem.

[Diamond Dog]

DavidV - welcome.  When I had the BCD-1, I think only one disc, which had over the redbook standard of 74 minutes was a problem.

Phil : I'm listening to a CD on my BCD right now which clocks in at 75:49. The player has its quirks but in my experience, the time factor hasn't been one of them. Hope it stays that way...

D.D.

[Phil A]

Phil : I'm listening to a CD on my BCD right now which clocks in at 75:49. The player has its quirks but in my experience, the time factor hasn't been one of them. Hope it stays that way...

D.D.

It was a long while ago (I got the BDA-1 around a year ago January and sold the BCD-) at the same time but I think the disc I had was 77+ minutes.  Don't remember what it was.  I thought the guy I sold it to (I think Sco77 - he only has a couple of posts) had a problem with one of his long discs and posted about it shortly after he bought and James replied that it could be an issue.

[Phil A]

It is the number of tracks that is the issue apparently - http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=77785.msg736969#msg736969

[DavidV]

Thank you all for your kind welcome and for the feedback.  It seems, based on the replies so far, that the problems I am experiencing with the BCD-1 are not typical, so hopefully they can be corrected on my unit.  I purchased it new from Audio Advisor, so I will contact them and Bryston early next week on how to best proceed.  Thanks again.

David

[alexone]

David,

welcome at AC!

i know one issue that always happens:
the player shows the remaining time of a current played song. if you hit the fwd button and shortly after that you want to skip to the next song the player shows weird signs. i've tried several discs...still the same problem

might not be the perfect answer for your question but i thought it could be helpful for some reasons...?!?

al.

[rob80b]

David,

welcome at AC!

i know one issue that always happens:
the player shows the remaining time of a current played song. if you hit the fwd button and shortly after that you want to skip to the next song the player shows weird signs. i've tried several discs...still the same problem

might not be the perfect answer for your question but i thought it could be helpful for some reasons...?!?

al.

Experienced the same quirks.

Hello all.
But what I do consider to be a serious problem is that on a growing number of CDs the BCD-1 has problems at certain points in the CD:  it will just stop;  it will stop and then a few seconds later start up again;  it skips to a different place in the track;  it continues playing, but there is a sound something like birds wings flapping (this has happened on several discs).  These problems are definitely disc dependent, but the thing is, the discs play perfectly on my other CD players (14-year old Meridian 506,  20-year old Adcom).  It plays most CDs just fine, so I was sort of ignoring it, but in the last couple of weeks of occasional listening I've come across 4 additional CDs that it has had problems with (including a brand new one tonight).

I will probably contact Bryston and send it in to let them take a look at it.  I am hoping this is just a problem with my unit and something that they can fix.  However, before I go through the hassle of sending it in, I thought I would see if any other BCD-1 owners reading this have had similar problems.  Any input would be appreciated.

David

Even with all the odd quirks my BCD-1 has never failed to play even slightly damaged discs till the end, just the few that pushed the boundaries in track length (over 20 minutes) or CD capacity.
Over the weekend managed to pick up some CDs at a garage sale, some had a lot of scratches but at 25 cents a pop I figured I'd get a few listenable tracks, not so, all of them played through flawlessly.
I would be led to believe the transport in David's BCd-1 may have suffered a bit of jarring in shipping and not an acceptable behavior for a Bryston product. Audioadvisor may swap it out but if you contact Bryston directly they should have you up and running in no time, well a few days at most.

Robert

[amblin]

Update

I narrowed my choice down to the french CD-1 and bryston BCD-1 , they'll arrange a home demo this weekend.

Btw, they also offered a deal, if i buy an additional powe-amp or crossover, they'll give me ' a discount i simply could not resist', well, i'll see.

So i have two additional quick questions.

1. i currently own a 14B SST SQ, running bi-wire to drive the LF and MF+HF units. if i go for bi-amp, would a 4B be suffice to drive my PMC MB2i's MF+HF units? or, maybe i shoud add a pair of 28B's and push them out of the solar system (if so, 28B-->LF or 28B-->MF+HF?)   OR, simply add another 14B and be happy？

2. crossovers, never used external electronic crossovers before and they seem extremely complicated to operate...i downloaded the manual of bryston's 10B...but it was like reading some highly complicated maths theroy... i hate maths...and knobs, and knobs with numbers, lots of numbers...and different numbers.. so, is there some kind of fool proof setting i can simply copy and leave it?

thanks again!