Bryston BDA-3

@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?

milpai - You are correct, the BDA-3 decodes the DSD stream directly from SACD players via HDMI.

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 .

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.

Can anyone of the BDA-3 owners comment on the affects of the upsampling feature on the overall sound quality? Thanks.