Any Love For Bryston Here?

Been listening to Bryston for over 35 years, have had the original 3B, 3BST, 4B, 4BST, 4BSST and now the 3B cubed.
To my ears, the cubed series of power amps are the best sounding solid state amps that Bryston has ever made!
They aren’t cheap but outperform any other power amps at the price point!

I am driving B&W 802 III and Theil CS1.6 speakers!

Wow, a non believer!

 Bryston gear is amazing, their customer service has always been great!

  Powerful amps, clean straight wire style preamps.


 If I ever get 4K to blow, I’ll get their CD player.

anyone know who builds Brustons CD players, etc.
the warranty is above average on their electronics, but when the CD player goes down, will they say “pound sand”
or try to help out of warranty?

@arcticdeth the Bryston BCD-3 CD player has a 3 year warranty from date of manufacture. It's three years because it has a motorized moving part (the optical drive). As far as I know the BCD-3 is built in Canada at Bryston's f

@nekoaudio 


   Thank you.
only thing I wanna do is compare to the aging McCormack UDP-1
which has been my go to for a couple years now………

Last month got a factory reconditioned 4BSST for my subs. Talk about cost-effective!!

Ordered a 3B3 Cube on Saturday. My second Bryston I also own a 2.5 SST2.

I have a Bryston B60R integrated that I've enjoyed for 21 years. It did require servicing at 19 years, but my only expense was the shipping cost to the Bryston repair facility. The process was easy and painless. The build quality continues to impress me to this day.

Great Warranty
Great Customer Service
Sound Good 
Terrible Aesthetics  

I owned a 3B for 39 years when a channel died and I sold it.  I replaced it with a PS Audio S300, which did an excellent job.

Last week, I bought a pre-owned 4B SST2.  Still nothing bad to say about the S300, but the Bryston is simply better and is an outstanding amp in every way.

After hoping to get a hold of a Holo R2R DAC and their soon-to-be released headphone amp, I decided to follow a dealer recommendation and try the Bryston BDA 3.14 and BHA-1 to go with my Grado GS3000e and Meze Empyrean (now Elite). I had the rare chance to indulge in good headphone gear; I have a Woo WA5-LE SET headphone amp, and I still use a SChiit Gungnir MB DAC and Mjolnir2 amp. 

Well, after years of hearing that Bryston was "sterile", "clinical", "boring"....and knowing, from recording studio work, that Bryston is well-respected pro gear....I now have even less tolerance for the judgments of esoteric niche audio (which I've been plenty guilty of over the years). 

The Bryston DAC is leagues beyond the Schiit Gungnir - not surprising, given that it costs nearly 4x as much. But I've cycled many DACs through this system, including Chord and Mytek. The Bryston DAC was so much better defined, luminous, fast, and groovy, than the Schiit Gungnir-  which many devotees prefer to the Yggy, or find to offer 90% of what their flagship DAC can do - that its a little hard to go back to the Gumby without reminding myself to just listen to the music and stop worrying about sonics. Powerwash the windows better.

The Bryston combo was, and is, utterly transparent, eerily revealing, and timbrally true. Moreover, if this is "sterile", then gimme more sterility. The MUSIC has the soul, and the music is what it delivers. The textures from the BHA-1 amp are silken - which is not to say, smoothed over, lacking definition. There is simply no electronic harshness whatsoever; nothing one would associate in a negative sense, with traditional solid state. You get slam, speed, richness and bloom where they are in the music, ACCURATELY reproduced engineering flaws too....but at no point is any harshness or glare emphasized. You could even say the Bryston gear, in this context, is forgiving, to the extent that it does not editorialize or accentuate anything. Its just friggin' accurate, to a degree you'd have to spend a lot more money to improve significantly upon. 

I'm a fan of Bryston now - I don't care of theyre cool. I. might still grab a Holo May KTE if I can ever afford one again. But I wouldn't miss a thing if I lived with this Bryston gear for a lot longer.

Bryston equipment is top notch, I haven't heard a bad sounding amp from them. Their amps have some of the highest slew rates I've seen, 60 V/µs, which translates into high power at high frequencies. Just what one desires for realistic instrument attack response. The only higher slew rates I've seen are in darTZeel and modified V-fet amps from Sony and Yamaha.

A little update. I have sold my Bryston BDA-3 DAC and have my BP-17 cubed preamp for sale. I am doing this to just make a change and fund some new gear. Plus I already have a bunch of gear. I guess this is what a lot of us do. But what won’t be going anytime soon, especially if I still have my Magnepan 1.7i panels are my Bryston 28B cube monoblocks. Those beasts are staying!

Ordered a Bryston 3B Cubed July 10. Still waiting. Anyone else having a long wait for their Bryston to come in??