Bryston Announces NEW BDP-2 / BDA-2

Hello Kclone, I'm glad you're enjoying the new BDA-2, I have no doubt it has to be great, considering its predecessor... I have already pulled the trigger on "The other one" and am awaiting delivery soon so I will do a personal comparison between it and the BDA-1, of course...If it doesn't compare well with the 1...then "oops" and I'll have to re-think it all again. Here's hoping that it was justified for me at this time, though I will never doubt the BDA 2 would have likely been an excellent choice. Best of luck with yours!

I just came back from my Bryston dealer. They told me that in their opinion the BDA 2 is "marginally" better than the BDA1 and that you really have to stretch to hear an improvement...but it is there. He said some features have improved, that is the biggest difference.
He said most people wouldn't notice a differnce and you really have to have top end gear before and after it to notice the small difference that is there.

I have both the BDA-1 and BDA-2 and yes they are in my opinion virtually identical in sound. The BDA-2 supports USB -2 to 192 k which is why I bought it. If you feed the BDA-1 with any digital source other than USB you will have a difficult time telling the difference. They are both great.

BDA-1 and BDA-2 cannot be more different from each other than they are.
The difference is absolutely enormous, much bigger than a difference between any amps in Bryston lineup from 4B SST to 28B SST.
There is no single aspect of sound reproduction with some level of similarities, they have completely different presentation of soundstage depth and width, tonality is utterly different, focus night and day.
This was conclusion of 7 people that listened to both DACs in the same system at the same time.
I do not know of any two DACs from the same manufacturer released in sequence that sound more differently than BDA-1 and BDA-2.