Bryston Service A-1

 

the Aurender must have been really bad…

I know many praise Aurender, but my experience was not good. They had one support guy ("Ari") whose "solutions" to problems showed he hadn't bothered to read the remedies I'd already tried. Audio should be fun so I moved on. I think the Bryston is terrific.

@cleeds 

yikes, the Aurender must have been really bad…

I dumped my Aurender in favor of the BDP3, which has been much more stable and reliable.

@mahler123 

You just set Manic Moose to Roon compatible mode, then MM its just an endpoint.   You don't really ever have to touch it. Been using my little BDP Pi like that for several years now.  Reliable. 

@jbuhl  would you be using Manic Moose or does Roon totally bypass that for you?

Hopefully Bryston has upgraded their streaming support since those unhappy days. The best support is the one that you never need to call

The BDP-3 has beeen EOL. They merged the Technology with their DAC for an integrated streamer/DAC (BDA 3.14). You can still buy the standalone DAC.

I have been toying withe the idea of getting rid of my current standalone DAC and BDP pi for the 3.14.  Allowing me to stream directly to the DAC from The ROONS server.

Love the Matching Dac  BDA3

Well thankfully  its only problem I had with the unit and the source was on The music service Tidal's end

Glad he corrected it.

I wouldn't buy another one that's for sure Many other options out there.

At least bryston helped in the days of Numerous horror stories of support.

I had the BDP-3.  It needed so much support that I added Chris Rice, who apparently was the only Bryston employee who knew anything about streaming, to my Christmas card list.  He was responsive to the numerous requests to fix the snafus but occasionally he would take a vacation, etc.  I told him we had to sto meeting like this.  I finally dumped the BDP-3.

  Hopefully Bryston has upgraded their streaming support since those unhappy days.  The best support is the one that you never need to call

Bryston even supports many of there out of production units.