LINE ARRAY speakers are designed to give you a tall, deep, powerful presentation of music. When the design is carried out scrupulously- it is devastatingly effective in presenting a lifelike, 3D soundstage. After you experience a well executed Line Array, I think you’ll have second thoughts about expensive 3-ways- no matter how well meaning or heavy the box. Bryston of Canada has…

It is not sufficient to simply design speakers to look good on paper. In days past Bryston’s loudspeaker engineers participated in ground breaking research that modernized speaker engineering. Since then, we have done more to correlate
measured performance with perceived sound quality than just about every other
manufacturer on the planet

Bryston Model T Tens have landed!

Covid Intervened Covid hit harder in Canada than it did here. Bryston didn’t make any A Series speakers for about two years. Covid literally stopped the flow of some of the best speakers on the market at fair pricing for two solid years. Now that Covid is mostly behind us, Bryston is ramping up production and most models are finally finding their…

Not necessarily! I received a solicitation recently. For $149 a company, Elite Media Incorporated, will write ten, 5 star reviews for your company, and post them on Google, Yelp and Facebook. They don’t know who you are. They don’t know what you do. And they don’t care. They do care about $149. The solicitation is aimed specifically at home audio businesses. You…

Without even waiting for your response, I’m guessing NOT. Who does?! Almost all of our living rooms are very bright sounding and have endemic slap echo in their sonic personalities. We all know this and pretty much have to live with it because our wives don’t want lovely charcoal absorbing panels all over the place to make our sound more like a…

Bryston First of all, Bryston makes its own drivers, and complete speakers, in its own factory in Canada with a TWENTY YEAR warranty. Bryston doesn’t source its drivers, woofers or others, from vendors. The result is that Bryston has total control over what goes into its speakers. For today’s discussion, we’re talking woofers. Bryston makes a prodigious 8” woofer that is used…

Atoll IN300 Integrated Amp $4000 (150×2) (3.75h, 17.32w, 12d, 36 lbs) Made in France! Price doesn’t include DAC or Phono, 3 Year Warranty Atoll’s IN300 is quite simply, my favorite integrated amp, all things considered- on the planet! It does so much, so well, at about half the price of its apples to apples to competitors. It’s a dual mono, Class AB,…

Rogue RP-1 Stereo Tube Preamp $1800 (3.2h, 15.25w, 14.5d, 17 lbs, Black or Silver) Rogue Audio of Pennsylvania has made warm sounding tube electronics since 1996. Founder Mark O’Brien has especially been known for offering affordable gear- to go along with some big guns too. Imagine that- cost effective, fine sounding gear made in the USA. This could be the “secret” to…

About four months ago customer Jim called me about distortion in his system. He has a nice array of gear based a Bryston Mini A speakers. His are about six years old. He still has 14 years of warranty left on them. There’s no rush to bring them in. Yet virtually any other speakers would be out of warranty by now. Yep,…

Atoll Electronique Just in, straight from France, is Atoll Electronique. Yes, Atoll is made in France, not China, and comes with a THREE year warranty. Atoll was founded in 1997 by brothers Stephane and Emmanuel Dubreuil. You’ll see that Atoll is barely more money than the Chinese imports- yet the performance is astonishingly more dynamic, rich and smooth sounding. The line is…

Atoll CD80 CD Player $1750 (3.75h, 17.32w, 12d, 14 lbs) Made in France With 3 Year Warranty! I’m a big fan of CDs and CD players. As a classical piano fan first and foremost, I don’t care to listen through mechanical noise and PRETEND is isn’t there. IT IS. Further, I want the pitch to be right with ZERO wow & flutter….

Atoll IN200 Integrated Amp $2900 (120×2) (3.75h, 17.32w, 12d, 25 lbs) Made in France! Priced as Line Stage With Remote, 3 Year Warranty Optional Boards Available: Phono MM $130, DAC $320, DAC/Bluetooth $500 Atoll’s IN200 is simply an astonishingly fine accomplishment! It does so much, so well, at such a fair price, built with TLC in France, that it deserves a ROSETTE….

Atoll IN100 Integrated Amp $2100 (100×2) (3.75h, 17.32w, 12d, 25 lbs) Made in France! Priced as Line Stage With Remote, 3 Year Warranty Optional Boards Available: Phono MM $130, MM/MC $190, DAC $300, DAC/Bluetooth $500 Atoll’s IN100 is the first integrated in the family to use a PAIR of the outstanding Spain built 340VA transformers. While IN50 and IN80 are dual mono,…

Atoll IN80 Integrated Amp $1700 (80×2) (3.75h, 17.32w, 12d, 18 lbs) Made in France! Priced as Line Stage With Remote, 3 Year Warranty Optional Boards Available: Phono MM/MC $190, DAC $300, DAC/Bluetooth $500 Atoll’s IN80 is a notch stronger than it’s formidable little brother, IN50. The transformer and filter cap sizes roughly double. IN80 is the first integrated in the line to…

Bryston has an anechoic chamber it uses for test purposes in loudspeaker design. However one of the limitations of an anechoic chamber comes from measuring very low frequencies. The anechoic chamber has limited accuracy below 85Hz. In order to obtain completely accurate measurements of the very long sound waves that come from low notes, Bryston has a 100 foot tower upon which…