MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Bryston BDA – 3 Review – UHF Magazine
May 2017
We've had a pause in our publishing schedule, not for the first time in our 35-year history. But we're getting the new issue put together. You can see the cover here.
What's more, there are changes afoot that will make it easier for us to put out the magazine more regularly. We'll be telling about that shortly.
The product on the cover, in front of the trees with their Spring buds, is the Bryston BDA-3 DAC, the new DAC from this famed Canadian manufacturer.
The older BDA-2 is still in the catalogue, but the new unit is worth waiting for. In point of fact we bought one ourselves.
There will be another Bryston product in our review lineup, the TF2 Moving-Coil Transformer .
Years ago (back in the 80's), Bryston was selling the TF1, a step-up transformer for moving-coil cartridges. We still own one, which we use to match a Goldring Excel cartridge to the Copland tube preamplifier that is at the heart of our Alpha reference system.
As analog seemed to be fading away, the TF1 was discontinued, though it lived on inside Bryston's own preamplifiers. But analog is back, obviously, and Bryston even makes turntables.
We might add that making a step-up transformer is harder than it may seem, and in the intervening years, we've heard some duds (the Talisman and the YBA, notably). We're looking forward to hearing the TF2.
Gerard Rejskin,
UHF Magazine
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