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…
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…
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 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…
Bi-amping is running two amps into one loudspeaker. Does it make sense to consider this? Bryston speakers, among many, are set up to allow bi-amping. The top set of binding posts connects to the mid/tweets. The lower set goes to the woofs. There are jumpers connecting the top/bottom posts so you can run a stereo amp straight in and call it a…