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Hi Guys,
Yet another excellent review of the BDA-2 -
ftp://ftp.bryston.com/pub/reviews/Absolute_Sound_Review _BDA2.pdf
A couple of snippets below -
Here again, the BDA-2 just doesn't play by the same rules. I hear no intrinsic spatial characteristics whatsoever from this DAC. Instead of "throwing a soundstage" or "bringing the musicians into your room," the BDA-2 does something quite unlike anything that I have ever heard before. It is as if the end of my listening room behind the plane of the speakers has been removed, leaving an open-air view into the recording venue itself, with life-sized proportions, scale, and volume. Perhaps paradoxically, this absence of spatial coloration does endow the BDA-2 with a distinctive perspective. Because instruments and performers are rendered with a much more realistic sense of distance than we are accustomed to hearing, the surrounding space logically extends far beyond the listening room boundaries, especially in depth. Some listeners might initially find the BDA-2 "laid-back" or "recessed"; it takes a little time to move past our preconceived categorical constraints, and embrace the paradigm shift implicit in the BDA-2's radical advance in conveying spatial relationships. The sensation of being in the presence of live musicians is uncannily realistic, yet un-spectactularly natural.
I hadn't expected this sort of musical revelation, but I have gratefully come to accept such delightful rewards from the technically evolutionary but musically revolutionary Bryston BDA-2 digital-to-analog converter.
Yet another excellent review of the BDA-2 -
ftp://ftp.bryston.com/pub/reviews/Absolute_Sound_Review _BDA2.pdf
A couple of snippets below -
Here again, the BDA-2 just doesn't play by the same rules. I hear no intrinsic spatial characteristics whatsoever from this DAC. Instead of "throwing a soundstage" or "bringing the musicians into your room," the BDA-2 does something quite unlike anything that I have ever heard before. It is as if the end of my listening room behind the plane of the speakers has been removed, leaving an open-air view into the recording venue itself, with life-sized proportions, scale, and volume. Perhaps paradoxically, this absence of spatial coloration does endow the BDA-2 with a distinctive perspective. Because instruments and performers are rendered with a much more realistic sense of distance than we are accustomed to hearing, the surrounding space logically extends far beyond the listening room boundaries, especially in depth. Some listeners might initially find the BDA-2 "laid-back" or "recessed"; it takes a little time to move past our preconceived categorical constraints, and embrace the paradigm shift implicit in the BDA-2's radical advance in conveying spatial relationships. The sensation of being in the presence of live musicians is uncannily realistic, yet un-spectactularly natural.
I hadn't expected this sort of musical revelation, but I have gratefully come to accept such delightful rewards from the technically evolutionary but musically revolutionary Bryston BDA-2 digital-to-analog converter.