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Bryston BDA-3

  I have a lot of SACDs.  I am therefore intrigued by this Bryston DAC, claims to decode DSD from SACD over HDMI.  I can't find any reviews of the product.  Does any one have any experience with it?
mahler123
mahler123 OP
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@papaned great to hear

I ordered mine around XMass and it isn't in yet.  I also have an unmodified Oppo 105 which I currently using as a transport with the Mytek Manhatten for RBCD..

  The Mytek has enhanced my system and now I would like to get more out of my SACDs.  If the Bryston sounds great all around then I probably will swell the Mytek, since I don't care about MQA...

 

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milpai
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@papaned,
Congratulation on the new acquisition and Thanks for sharing your experience. Looks like the BDA-3 is awesome. How are you playing the SACD (DSD) streams over the DDA-3? Is it via HDMI?
bill_k
915 posts
 
milpai - You are correct, the BDA-3 decodes the DSD stream directly from SACD players via HDMI.
itzhak1969
515 posts
 
Maybe the problem is also the Oppo itself I am not sure how good it is a CD transport , Maybe you need a dedicated CD transport without inner DAC to fulfill the full potential of the BDA-3 DAC.
From my experience CDP and blu-ray players are lousy as transports to external DAC .
bill_k
915 posts
 
As a point of reference I run the BDA-3 DAC using a PS Audio PerfectWave Transport for disc playback with excellent results. The PWT plays both CDs as well as hi-res PCM files burned to DVD-R discs.
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