Bryston or Yamaha?

I owned the BP6 for years, and it’s the most transparent component I’ve ever owned — straight wire with gain personified.  It just gets out of the way and lets everything through with pristine clarity, quietness, solid and precise imaging, and an expansive 3D soundstage.  It’s basically a blank slate upon which you can put anything, and if these are the things you’re looking for it’s an outstanding preamp.  It is not something that’s going to add any flavor of its own, so if that’s what you’re after look elsewhere.  I haven’t heard the Yammy so can’t comment on sound, but personally I don’t want a DAC/digital processing going on in my stereo pre and would much prefer a separate DAC, but I’m more of a purist that way.  Hope this helps, and best of luck.

Yes I agree with you I have a bryston. I'm running 2 Yamaha m40 on it. I don't stream any music. if I don't have record or CD I don't listen to it. This guy my friend knows has the Yamaha cx1000 it's pretty..

Hard to go wrong with either. I find the Yamaha variable loudness function to come in quite handy though.

@soix I doubt the 30+ year old Yamaha is digitizing any analog inputs.

Bryston is likely to be more refined.