Byston A3 $3290 Per Pair
{37.5h, 9.25w, 15d, 53 lbs, 87 SPL, 6 ohms}
Walnut, Black Ash, Boston Cherry
Bryston’s A3 is the FIRST great tower speaker.
I say FIRST, because anything less than it, just doesn’t have the testosterone, smoothness or reliability of Bryston.
Bryston’s warranty is 20 years!
Bryston A3 is designed and built in Bryston’s own factory in Canada. It is a legitimate
3-way that can absolutely rock your world. It isn’t a mass marketed, flimsy offering from China.
Check the fine print. You’ll learn many competitors are 2-ways, or 2.5 ways, because they just don’t want to spend the money on a full fledged 3-way crossover with upstanding parts.
Bryston delivers the full enchilada. You’ll even find that some sneaky guys made on the other side of the planet employ passive radiators that look identical to active drivers. They won’t mind at all if you don’t realize they’re just dummies.
You wouldn’t think, by just looking at this clean, classically styled speaker, that it could kick your fanny. But it can- big time!
A3 wields a heavy hammer. It’s a consequence of a bulwark cabinet design filled with drivers that are much more meaty than its competitors.
A3’s cabinet is thick, heavy and reinforced with bracing bars which create a matrix of enclosure control. The mid and tweeter drivers are housed within their own enclosures.
A3 uses a pair of 6.5” cast frame woofers which will move your floor boards. A3 looks polite and distinguished, but has a Joe Frazier left hook that you just don’t see coming.
A3’s woofers and midrange element are comprised of a contiguous Aluminum construction. The contiguous Aluminum is not “this” glued to “that”- or some sandwich of materials which can trade off definition in the bonding process. Most competitors use a woven fabric or stronger material glued to weaker material. Bryston wants the driver to be taut and responsive- no swimming with your boots on.
A3’s tweeter is contiguous Titanium. Again, it isn’t this glued to that, or something sprinkled on to a substrate of something lesser in attempts to strengthen it. Bryston runs an intrinsically light, linear design which is all but indestructible.
We’ve sold Bryston speakers for over a decade. We haven’t had to replace even a handful of tweeters in that time, due to their remarkable build quality. Visit the Bryston Speakers tab at the bottom of our home page where we discuss the nuts and bolts of WHY this is the case.
If you’re willing to spend 3 grand-ish and want speakers that carry a velvet sledgehammer, you can’t beat A3. You get smooth sounding speakers that cast a broad image- from a company that has been in business since the 1960s and knows how to take care of its customers.