Hegel Mohican vs. Bryston BCD-3

@audiotroy  This is one of the most common problems with Audiogon threads.  The OP asks a question that is framed in such a way that it has particular relevance to himself.  Along come the other posters and all too often the response is: (a) instead of components A and B, you should junk those two and really consider component C, or, worse (b) you've conceptualized the issue wrongly and should really be attacking it from this completely different perspective.

@audiotroy  I don't own a cell phone, and I use DSL for internet.  I do have 1000+ CDs.  How constructive is your post to the current discussion???

Thank you to @gpgr4blu  @milpai   @skoczylas et al.

Getting back to my original question, I don't suppose that there are many dealers in the US who carry both Hegel and Bryston, and I certainly don't suppose that I'll be lucky enough to walk through their doors, if one does exist, and find that they have the Mohican and the BCD-3 both on demo.  Hence the thread posing the question to the A'gon community.  As a more-than-contented owner of the BCD-1, I've been eyeing the '3 for a while, and as @skoczylas points out, warranty and long-term support weigh heavily in my deliberations.  Now the Mohican has come along with what would seem to be many similar design goals as the '3, and as all audiophiles would, I started wondering how different, if at all, the two would sound.

Let's forget the comparison.

Has anyone even heard (or bought?!?!?) the Mohican?

@jafant There's a good deal of commentary on the BCD-3 over on Audio Circle.  A number of 1 owners have moved to the 3.  General verdict--same good qualities, but more so.  I'm also currently in this boat (as a BCD-1 owner; prefer this to Cambridge transport + Gungnir DAC which resides in the secondary system).

@jl35 Yes, that's what I read in the Absolute Sound review.  Still, Bryston have rock-solid support, so it's still a consideration, alongside the 1.5K difference.

I've made little progress on this front.

I'm finding it hard to believe that the Mohican has achieved much market penetration.  So far, I haven't stumbled over a single person on this site that owns it.

@jafant 

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/new-or-old-cd-player/post?highlight=opera%2Bconsonance%2Bhegel&postid=1542969#1542969

After it was revealed that the Mohican was based so closely on the much older Opera model, it made my choice even easier.  I currently own and enjoy the BCD-3--see my system.  The only other even rarer model I was interested in at that point was the Primare CD35.  Since then, one member bought a Primare and was very pleased.  Never been able to hear it myself.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/please-help-me-figure-out-what-i-need-to-do-this-my-head-spins-with-te/post?highlight=primare%2Bcd35%2Babstract&postid=1630482#1630482

At a certain point you've just got to stop agonizing and make a decision.  Once you've narrowed down the field, none of the options are bad.