I love all my other Bryston gear (14BSST, BCD-1, BDA-3, BP-26 PRE-AMP) but the interface (Manic Moose) for the BDP-3 Network player is so unappealing to use, that mine has been sitting unused for more than a year.
Instead, I have a Yamaha np-s303 network player at 1/10 of the price doing the job. It's app is super easy to use.
I'm holding on to the Bryston player in the hopes that Bryston Canada will succumb to public preasure and develop and app/interface that is simple to use.
I know this has been discussed on other threads and on other forums in the past. I'm just hoping that Mr. Tanner is willing to reopen the topic for further discussion.
What Gear Has Disappointed You?
While it's clearly not an absolute fact, we tend to have an expectation that a more expensive product should be better. Within a given brand it really should be a fact, but because there's a wide range of factors in play when it comes to pricing it's not necessarily true when comparing different brands. I think that it's fair to say that when we purchase a more expensive product we generally have an expectation that it'll perform better. In the cases where our experience confirms this belief it can be the result of the product actually being better and/or some expectation bias. In a sense, it doesn't really matter which it is.
With this in mind, have you ever purchased a product expecting it to be superior only find that it was clearly inferior in your experience?