Superb Bryston BDA-3.14


My new Bryston BDA-3.14 was delivered today.


Bryston assured me that the product is compatible with OSX.


Imagine my surprise when I tried to mount an Apple share using the ‘User Friendly’ NAS Setup system only to get the message “apple error” pop up on browser.


Having twenty years experience managing Linux systems I decided to establish an ssh session to have a look at the perfectly setup Debian system.


Well, well, well the 16 year old at Bryston done got forgotten to install the afpfs and afpcmd binaries. Gosh darn Bryston, how did that happen?


The apache log is riddled with PHP errors so it’s not surprising nothing shows up on the beautifully crafted interface when searching for “The Beatles”, no that’s a bit unfair some sort of list pops up 35 seconds later, if you are lucky


Here’s some advice Bryston: just stick to making audio equipment.


So many articles wax poetic about the Manic Moose interface, what a compete and utter joke this is compared to a professionally written software package like Audirvana.


The only saving grace is the DAC itself, but if you cannot navigate easily to the music you want to listen to it’s completely pointless.




shaunmccullagh

Showing 3 responses by mahler123

I own the BDP3 and the DAC3.  The DAC is superb, and it is what lead me to buy the BDP3 when I got tired of Bluesound dying on me repeatedly, and while the BDP3 sounds fantastic I completely agree with everything the OP says about Manic Moose.
  I am curious about nm_mac2 post.  The Bryston won’t work with UPNP Bubble App.  I will investigate Rigelian but what other MPD music players does he recommend?
Rigelian works now with my BDP, after I reloaded the app.  Not perfect, but an improvement over Manic Moose