Montreal Audio Show 2015

Awesome setup James! Man, unpacking for the show must be quite an undertaking. That's a LOT of gear!
 
Montreal Audio Show 2015
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My best moment at the Montreal Audio Show was when I shake hands with M.Tanner. It makes my day.

By the way the Middle T are awesome.

Great show.

PierreB
 
Montreal Audio Show 2015

James

It was great to finally meet you after all these years. As we chatted about on Saturday, the system as displayed was stunning on its own and compared to the other various systems I listened to at the show over the 2 hours, or so that I was there. I heard no other system that approached the Bryston system in the 4 or 5 additional rooms I visited.

The Model T's sounded great and the imaging was divine (Lol...those T's in glossy white are like angels). There was just a great sense of ease and 'fullness' to the system and this was done so at levels that you could comfortably talk over. It just sounded 'right'.

Well, there's a new BDP-2 on the radar for mid-year this year as well as a BHA-1. However, now I want a set of T's later in the year as well.

Thanks for the new music recommendations as well.

Congrats on your success...well deserved.

Cheers
Keith
 
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BRYSTON

Bryston is a going concern. Having started as an amplifier manufacturer, they've expanded their lines to include digital product and now a brand range of speakers.

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Their product introductions at SSI 2015 included the BDA-3 DAC (just like the BDA-2, but including DSD, HDMI, etc., price, the BP-2 phono stage, moving-magnet, with transformer for moving-coil cartridges in the future), the ACI Micro center-channel speaker, and the Model A powered subwoofer. Bryston had one of the larger rooms (which could almost be called a "hall") and it was busy both times I visited.

The sound of the system featuring the large Model Ts had that by-now-familiar tonal neutrality, powerful dynamics, and good imaging.
 
MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Bryston Demo Room Montreal Audio Show 2015

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Usually, we select short lists of the Best Products and Best Systems we saw and heard at a show, but not enough new products were introduced this year at SSI to warrant that. Still, some systems stood out, and deserve to be recognized as the Best of Salon Son & Image 2015.

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Fellow-writer Hans Wetzel likes to describe products or systems that perform capably and admirably as ‘SOLID’.

It’s a good word for stuff that’s flat-out good, and it’s the one I’d use to describe the sound of Bryston’s system at SSI 2015: their BDP-2 digital player, BDA-3 digital-to-analog converter, 7B SST2 mono amplifiers, and Model T Signature speakers. Cables were also Bryston’s own.

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The total price of this system runs about $30,000 Canadian, but to my ears it sounded better than most of the systems at SSI 2015 that cost twice that or more: full-range, tonally natural, effortless, spacious -- it pretty much had it all.

As a result, I’m confident that while anyone who buys this system will be spending a lot of money (30 grand can get you a car), but he or she will be getting good value -- the performance was, across the board, great. That buyer will also get an incredible warranty from one of hi-fi’s stalwart brands: 20 years for the amps, preamp, and speakers.

As Hans would say: ‘SOLID’.

Doug Schneider
SoundStage!

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Bryston's James Tanner at the control center of the company's display room.
 
MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Montreal Audio Show 2015

March, 2015
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Salon Son & Image Report 2015 -- Montreal High-End Audio Show

In spite of the fact that James Tanner had not put up the "Free Beer" sign I recommended, I stumbled into the Bryston room and collapsed into a directors' chair in the sweet spot next to him. Music filled the room with a huge soundscape emanating from a pair of Model T Signature passive floorstanders with the external crossovers on the floor behind them, driven by a pair of their 7BSST2 monoblocks that are good for 600 watts into 8 Ohms.

Big, bold and transparent music that was on the other end of the teeter-totter from the sound of the Sony speakers mentioned above. Much more dynamic and transparent, and only a little less focused—a tradeoff I'd gladly accept.

More like "being there" and less like listening to a pristine recording. I was so engaged with Dire Straits I forgot to take photos of them.

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MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Montreal Audio Show 2015

April, 2015

Salon Son & Image Report 2015 -- Montreal High-End Audio Show

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A much better sounding all-Canadian system could be found, as usual, in the Bryston room.

The large Bryston Model T Signature speakers were running from Bryston electronics (BDA3 DAC, BP26 Preamp, 7B SST2 Amplifiers) and the company's BDP -2 digital player.

The room like that of the "world's best," was very large, but then Bryston's James Tanner has been setting up show systems for, he says, 40 years.

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Gerard Rejskind
UHF Magazine
 
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Bryston were belting out the tunes in their room with the big Model Ts and the delicately muscular horsepower of a pair of their 7BSST amps. Not surprisingly, digital and pre were also Bryston. Static displays fully lined the room, showing the depth of their sizeable product line and included their new and affordable bouncing baby Mini A.

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Always nice to see respected homegrown product in action which is intelligently engineered and always performs above its pricing weight.

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CANADA HI-FI MAGAZINE

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Bryston

Canada’s own Bryston offers one of the most diverse ranges of audio products of any company in the business. This March, Bryston proudly showed the full line-up of Canadian-built Target Audio Products speaker stands, a brand that it recently began distributing, as well as the brand new Bryston BDA-3 DAC which offers DSD decoding and will begin shipping in the late spring / early summer.

The Target speaker stands appear to offer a high level of build quality and reasonable price points.

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The Bryston system on demonstration was the same as the company showed last year at the Montreal show and commented by many again at this years’ show as one of the best sounding systems at the show – and for an achievable price.
 
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