I received an audiophile catalog today with Bryston BDP-2 shown front and center. Cost is *$2995!* It's only a digital music streamer - not even a DAC. I wouldn't dream of buying one for that price, but the glowing reviews of it baffle me. Basically it pulls the MP3/FLAC/whatever file from a hard drive or something via Ethernet or USB, sends it off to -another- DAC that you buy, and outputs those 0's and 1's to SPDIF. And unless I'm missing something obvious, those 0's and 1's get reclocked again by the upstream preamp/receiver that you already own before being sent to the speakers, right?
They also admit its just an Intel Atom board running Linux under the hood, with high-end inputs, outputs and power supply of course. :rolleyes: So what am I missing here? Audiophiles are gushing over it, and no doubt it has high build quality, but I fail to see how it's even -possible- for this to output better quality music than any other run-of-the-mill squeezebox _-especially-_ considering it doesn't even come with a DAC. Yes, no? Am I far off base here? How are these owners hearing magical unicorn farts coming from it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ valnar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59626 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102816 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
