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Message started by Scott in mich on 11/08/18 at 05:25:11

Title: Bryston bakes Pi
Post by Scott in mich on 11/08/18 at 05:25:11

I found this interesting:

http://www.bryston.com/products/digital_audio/BDP-Pi.html

Looks like basically the same transport I have - Rapberry Pi and hifiberry digi+. There's looks a lot nicer though!

Far as I can tell its running music player daemon. I'd love to know the base os and any tweaks they did.

Title: Re: Bryston bakes Pi
Post by Lonely Raven on 11/08/18 at 16:29:00

Wow, yeah, it sure looks nice. I'd love to get a peek inside!

Title: Re: Bryston bakes Pi
Post by lazb on 11/08/18 at 17:11:43

the price is quite high for what looks to be cosmetics, mostly?

Title: Re: Bryston bakes Pi
Post by Tommy Freefall on 11/08/18 at 20:19:06

Scott, if you decide to purchase it, would love for you to share your thoughts on it!

Title: Re: Bryston bakes Pi
Post by Scott in mich on 11/09/18 at 04:52:15

Found a couple pictures of this thing. Now I'm even more curious. Looks like the hifiberry board is made just for Bryston. The hifiberry folks had a blog post from March 2016 announcing its debut.

Tommy: Sadly this one is a bit out of my price range.

Title: Re: Bryston bakes Pi
Post by StanleyG on 11/12/18 at 06:26:03

I was running a BDP-Pi for awhile a year or so ago. I liked it for its size and lack of too many buttons. My fond recollection is that the sound quality was better than that of my BDP-1. Alas, the bee in my bonnet recently has been DSD and the BDP-Pi only did PCM (maybe there is newer firmware).

My experience with the two Bryston units (and later a Sonore microRendu) convinced me that getting the file rendering function away from a conventional desktop or laptop computer does flipping wonders for sound quality and there are several ways to skin that cat. No (conventional) computers in my playback chain!