Bryston is known for the long warranty, but schitt is longer than some at 5 yrs. The limited experience I had with bryston power was just demos and also owning a b60 integrated years ago. Long story short, I liked it’s preamp section better than its power section.
I do currently own a Vidar and posted my impression of it in the Vidar thread. Just guessing and it’s only a guess, bryston would be "cleaner" and soundstage wider but somewhat shallow. Vidar would have less stage width, but better depth, equal or better bass, somewhat less detail but better instrument tone. Lastly the Bryston would be quieter (i.e. hum and noise).
Generally in comparing direct coupled amps that have no servos or caps in the signal path to ones that do, there is a better timbre of instruments on the direct coupled designs.
I do currently own a Vidar and posted my impression of it in the Vidar thread. Just guessing and it’s only a guess, bryston would be "cleaner" and soundstage wider but somewhat shallow. Vidar would have less stage width, but better depth, equal or better bass, somewhat less detail but better instrument tone. Lastly the Bryston would be quieter (i.e. hum and noise).
Generally in comparing direct coupled amps that have no servos or caps in the signal path to ones that do, there is a better timbre of instruments on the direct coupled designs.