Bryston Middle T Speakers, $8590pr

(39.5h, 10.5w, 16.5d, 81 lbs, 88 dB SPL, 4 ohms), Walnut, Black Ash or Boston Cherry

Optional Outriggers $300 per pair

To get more background on Bryston speakers please read the yellow tab at the bottom of our home page titled Bryston speakers. The background story and driver info is described there. This entry is specific to the Middles. Warranty, 20 years!

Middle T

The $6-10k per pair price category is filled with “good speakers.” But none of them have the deep, gut wrenching, room quivering impact of Bryston’s Middle T. Bryston has put just as much effort and quality into its Middle T, as it has its bigger brother, the Model T. Middle T is just a bit shorter, not lesser.

I’m happy to say that if you asked me, what’s the best value in a heavy hitting, no holds barred tower at less than crazy money, I wouldn’t hesitate to tell you it’s the Bryston Middle T. The Middle has muscle that can grab you by your boot straps because it’s built like a cement mixer.

The market is flooded with far east speakers that purport to be full range. What you see from the US and Europe is often barely stronger. Compared to the Middles, they’re just pretenders. The Middle T produces floor board quaking testosterone! It is a true full range reproducer that absolutely belies the size of its cabinet.

The Middles start with a pair of Bryston’s 8” woofers. These boys are cast frame, weigh 15 pounds each and dwarf what you’ll see from the other guys. You’re lucky to get half that from the competition! These woofs are comprised of contiguous Pure Aluminum. There’s no fooling around with a sandwich construction of this glued to that. Mass built sandwich drivers invite buzzing and distortion. Pure Aluminum doesn’t lose energy in its transmission.

Middle T has an 82 pound CRW cabinet built like Ft. Knox. It is an internally braced matrix design, north/south and east/west. The sheer abundance of solid materials and attention to detail within Middle T sets the table for its staggering performance.

The Middles use a single Titanium tweeter. It runs out to 45kHz and there’s no back splash in the audible range, as there often is with fabric and aluminum domes. Titanium is also dramatically stronger than Beryllium- which is brittle and thus more fragile. Ya don’t want to have to pay for a Be tweeter out of warranty!

The Middles use one midrange element of contiguous Pure Aluminum, just like its woofers. The contiguous material moves in a pistonic motion and doesn’t waver or break up like treated paper or sandwich designs that are imprecisely manufactured.

Middles were created primarily to offer a less imposing shadow in your living room compared to bigger brother Model T. They’re just under 40” tall and don’t dominate your vista. The Middles look downright modest in most listening rooms. But the sound… holy BOMBAST! Even if you spend $25k plus for big dog Magicos, Wilsons or YG’s, you’re buying a “difference” rather than an improvement.

In terms of durability, Bryston flat out wins with its 20 year warranty. The other guys buy drivers from Scans-Speak. As good as they may be, they won’t have the consistency of built in house Brystons. Further, a decade down the road you’ll have a tough time finding the exact driver that was used in your mega expensive speaker.

Bryston builds its own drivers in its own house in Canada. It doesn’t buy drivers from anyone. Bryston is warrantied for 20 years. The parts WILL be there if you need them. I can tell you from having sold B&W and Paradigm back in the day before they went to hedge fund hell, they only support drivers for about a decade.

Let’s face facts here. Most speakers for $8k are coming from China and are being marketed as something they’re really not = refined and powerful. The majority of N American and Euro models in this price range are good, but not nearly as muscular or DEVASTATING as Middle T.

Make no mistake, Middle T can grab your floor boards by the throat and quake your entire dwelling. They’ll even sound impactful in your basement. That cement floor will reveal the pretenders- which will end up sounding like mini monitors in your basement.

If you want the weight and impact of a live performance in your home, but don’t want the size or price of Model T, you’ll be thrilled with the Middles. Middles have the same smooth, highly resolving top end with the same broad dispersion. There’s no hint of bite or sizzle to its sound.

Middle T is a highly refined musical tool that is Steinway Smooth. It will render your music with an uncanny size and robust impact, regardless of the musical genre. We’ve had many customers buy Middle T that were shopping for speakers up to three times the price- and realized they didn’t have to pay that much!