Bryston BDA-1 D/A converter

Bryston BDA-1 D/A converter

Feb 23, 2010
In February 2009, I reviewed Bryston Ltd.'s first CD player, the $2695 BCD-1, and was very impressed by what I heard. The BDA-1 ($1995) is the Canadian company's first standalone DAC. It's slim, only 2.75" high, with the engraved company name, model number, and infrared sensor grouped at the extreme left of a front panel of polished aluminum. Farther to the right are two columns of four LEDs each that comprise the sample-rate indicator, which identifies the selected input's signal frequency and whether the BDA-1 has locked to it. Closer to the center is the Upsample control, which governs the conversion of the incoming digital signal synchronously to 192kHz or 176.4kHz. The Upsample LED turns green for 192kHz, red for 176.4kHz. Digital sources are selected by pressing one of eight pushbuttons just right of center: two TosLink, four S/PDIF (coaxial), one AES/EBU XLR, and one USB 1.1, the last accepting only signals with sample rates at or below 48kHz. An LED above each pushbutton lights green for an incoming PCM datastreams and red for other types, including multichannel Dolby Digital streams.

Latex could silence noisy neighbours

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Room Tuning & Acoustics
Submitted by alrmad on

'THE rumbling bass from the party animals next door need no longer keep you awake at night. Cheap and effective soundproofing can be yours in the shape of novel tiles made from latex and a few plastic buttons'.
From New Scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527485.400-latex-could-silence-noisy-neighbours.html

Thinking About John Fahey and America

Thinking About John Fahey and America

Feb 22, 2010

The guitarist John Fahey was born on February 28, 1939, and died just days before what would have been his 62nd birthday, on February 22, 2001. Like so many other beautiful things that continue to have enormous impact on my life, Fahey’s music was introduced to me by <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/clouds_taste_metallic/">Miche…;. The album was 1997’s <i>City of Refuge</i>. We were in our second year at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in the second year of our relationship. Michelle had claimed the album from our campus radio station and brought it back to our dorm room and played it for me.

Bannable offenses

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by tomjtx on

This is meant to be a light hearted thread.

What constitutes a bannable offense?

What gives a temporary ban, what gives a permanent one?

I'll start:

Pomposity = temp ban

Verbosity = temp ban

Pomposity + Verbosity = perm ban.

Snap, MJF, you done be gone .
That reminds me of another one:
Inept and tasteless imitation of a dialect = temp ban (after a warning of course)

Supra Ply 3.4/S speaker cables

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Cables
Submitted by Freako on

I have now listened to my new cables burn in, and I am very surprised at the difference from my old Audioquests. The Supra's are much more pleasant and coherent, much less "in my face", but with a lot of details. The LF are very deep and round, and less boomy. It's amazing that a $20 per meter speaker cable can be so good. I don't hear any difference when connecting/disconnecting the shield to my amplifier's ground, but maybe I will when I get my new shoeboxes on Wednesday.

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