Bryston B60 vrs Sim Audio I-3

haven't heard the bryston either, but im using an i-5 with totem model 1 sigs and i love it. and i've been experimenting with replacing the i-5's pre with a bottlehead foreplay tube preamp for cd's, which warms up everything just a notch and makes the combo even more pleasing for me. don't know what your budget is, but i-5's typically come up here every so often for around $1500, sometimes less. it may be worth waiting before you go for the i-3 or bryston.

To me, all Sim Audio gear sound dark and grainy, with dry-sounding low end. And beleive me, my source and speakers are not to blame....b-t-w the I-3 is nothing more than a re-badged ''Celeste i-5080'' integrated, without the premium I-5 parts. No big deal, the i-5 sounds only marginally better.

Pertaining to audiokicks above, he is completely wrong - the i-3 has nothing to do with a 5080 (I own a 5080!). The i-3 is new and better in many ways, with a bigger transformer, and a new preamp section, so it sounds bigger and is more powerful than the i-5. Sim and Bryston, are, in my opinion, not competing with each other. Bryston is more like a better Rotel, whereas Sim is like Krell or Levinson. And I have heard the i-3 vs. the B-60 (which is why I'm responding in the first place!) - the i-3 is much better.