Bryston BDP1- loading problem

Thanks for the update, Jaytea. It's strange that there was no problem with your first drive, containing a considerably smaller amount of AIFF data. Perhaps that gives them a clue, and perhaps it explains why they didn't catch the problem sooner.

Best regards,
-- Al

Nglazer: I totally agree with you.

Al: Yes, They did test it with 120GB of AIFF and that took about 4 hours or so!

Manufacturers should always test their products in every possible way before release it to the market. But no product is perfect, including very expensive ones.

I used to own an Avid Acutus Reference turntable a few years back, it costed like 14K and has NO fine-tune speed adjustment, and speed error is 1% (that is a LOT), and if you want to adjust the balance of the platter, you have to put it on a post and adjust the screws under the feet , then bring it back to your rack and that all messed up! Although it sounded extremely good, I sold it and never get that brand back, because I have many other choices,( even though now they have new versions that changed all that)

Throughly engineered, tested products have better chance of having loyal customers, otherwise, they might not be go back to those brands.

With Bryston BPD-1 player, I decided to keep it because it is a very very promising design, even though at this moment it has a BIG problem loading a large library of AIFF files, but at least it works fine with FLAC as the manufacturer promised. I just find it really weird that they AND the reviewers never mentioned this short coming to buyers.

I kept updating this post because I want to share my experience with people who are interested in this products so they can make up their minds AND with hope that Bryston will try to fix this problem.

Thanks all for your suggestions .

This is a big deal for me. I'm considering the BDP 1 for two reasons - quality of sound (based on reviews and customer feedback) and ease of use (not interested in having to setup a PC). However, I'm not interested in having to convert files for the the BDP 1 to operate correctly.

I will be at RMAF and will visit Bryston. My decision is still on hold until I see what's their plan.

Thanks,
Mike

ONe thing not mentioned was that the card reader in the bdp is only 4-GIGS it is not supposed to store your collection,it's main purpose is to read whatever cd or songs you want from either a seperate HD or thumb drive
then once loaded it is completely in it's own and then goes to the Superb audio card and a pure class A circuit as well as excellent digital supplies down stream very well thought out. I have the dac and listened to them with and without the player the sound is better with the bdp player. No dac on it's ownis as good even at 4x the cost.I sold my Mdwright Sony 5400, which wwas very good this leaves it in the dust. for $4k this is a steal and the future. p.s if you downloaded any 24/96 or higher files it makes sacd sound broken it is that good. I am using flac files and have a 1t external drive I bring with me for demos.Once the file issue is out of the way you will have nothing to complain about and Remember it is Not A Server it does not load librarys that is what your external hard drives or thumb drives are for.

Are you not exceeding the file format limitations for FAT32 with those drives? I thought drives of that size require NTFS file systems? Win XP, for example, cannot format a volume greater than 32 GB in FAT32.