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Bryston A Series Is Back!

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…

Are Five Star Reviews Real?

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…

Do You Have A Perfect Listening Room?

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…

Woofers

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…

Rogue RP-1 Stereo Tube Preamp

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…

A Bryston Mini A Tale

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,…

Bryston Tower

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…