Superb Bryston BDA-3.14


My new Bryston BDA-3.14 was delivered today.


Bryston assured me that the product is compatible with OSX.


Imagine my surprise when I tried to mount an Apple share using the ‘User Friendly’ NAS Setup system only to get the message “apple error” pop up on browser.


Having twenty years experience managing Linux systems I decided to establish an ssh session to have a look at the perfectly setup Debian system.


Well, well, well the 16 year old at Bryston done got forgotten to install the afpfs and afpcmd binaries. Gosh darn Bryston, how did that happen?


The apache log is riddled with PHP errors so it’s not surprising nothing shows up on the beautifully crafted interface when searching for “The Beatles”, no that’s a bit unfair some sort of list pops up 35 seconds later, if you are lucky


Here’s some advice Bryston: just stick to making audio equipment.


So many articles wax poetic about the Manic Moose interface, what a compete and utter joke this is compared to a professionally written software package like Audirvana.


The only saving grace is the DAC itself, but if you cannot navigate easily to the music you want to listen to it’s completely pointless.




shaunmccullagh
I just bought a BDP Pi today from my local dealer. I plan to run it to my Ayre QB 9 Twenty. Any surprises I should know about?
Rigelian works now with my BDP, after I reloaded the app.  Not perfect, but an improvement over Manic Moose
shaunmccullagh
So I might keep it, endure Manic Moose for the time being and buy an Aurender N100H at a later date which has some support for MQA and a business like GUI running on a well designed app.
I'm in the process of trading my Aurender N100H back into my dealer for a Bryston BDP-3. The Aurender software is extremely limited and the company can't even figure out how to have it import/export playlists. While Aurender enjoys an excellent reputation for its support, that hasn't been my experience at all - their responses sometimes reveal that they never even read the initial inquiry.

The Aurender sounds great, but everything else about Aurender I find to be second-rate.
@mahler123:  Good you got Rigelian working; the developer is pretty responsive, and the app has seen continuous improvement, for example the ability to read .pdf liner notes is supposed to be coming.  To your other question, I have used Soundirok as well... a bit less intuitive to me, but some like its features.  The other is Glider... have not used, and has not seen as much development as the others.  

Bryston has been taking a bit of flack on their main forum re. their web app; they imply that based on this they may reconsider their opposition to developing an app for control.  But, I would not hold my breath on this, and people considering Bryston players need to do this based on current control apps.