Digital design: Within the digital domain, bit timing errors (called jitter) have been eliminated by perfectly synchronizing the player’s master clock and drive. The Crystal CS4398 DAC is an advanced generation chip using a combination of several different conversion methods to optimize the processing. Each premium DAC boasts dedicated power supplies—a separate, closely regulated and filtered digital power supply as well as a heavily regulated and filtered analog power supply with carefully routed electrical grounds. Finally, careful trace routing throughout the complete circuit architecture of the BCD-1 eliminates potential noise via capacitive coupling, which delivers those critical extra dB’s of noise and distortion reduction marking only the most outstanding equipment.
Discreet
advantages: The Bryston BCD-1 CD Player uses discreet operational
amplifiers after the DAC instead of the commonly used integrated circuits.
The use of discrete devices enables Bryston engineers to exactly match
the needs of the DAC and allow for a more robust output than IC-based
amplifiers. The use of discrete devices also allows Bryston to select
components with carefully matched input and output impedances based on
specific in-circuit requirements.
BCD-1
FEATURES:
• Redbook CD and CDR playback
• Fully Discrete Bryston Class A analog output stage
• Crystal 192k/24bit DAC
• Over-sampling is 128 times
• Independent Analog and Digital power supplies
• Balanced XLR and Unbalanced RCA Stereo outputs.
• Transformer coupled SPDIF and AES EBU Digital outputs
• Optical output
• RS-232 software upgrade
• Remote 12 Volt Trigger
• Full function IR remote control
• CD remote operates other Bryston products volume up/down/mute
• Cosmetically matches C-Series BP26/MPS2
SPECIFICATIONS:
• Frequency Response - 20 Hz - 20 KHz - .2 DB
• Signal to Noise - 115 DB (un-weighted)
• THD plus Noise - .002%
• Jitter is - Negligible (below the residual of the Audio precision
AP2700 test gear)
• Output Level - 2.3V Unbalanced - 4.6V Balanced
• Shipping Weight - 18 Lbs / 8.2 Kg
• Dimensions - 17 or 19 w / 11.25 d / 3.125 h inches
43.2 or 48.3 w / 28.6 d / 7.9 h cm
About
Bryston:
Bryston (www.bryston.ca) first opened for business in 1962 as a manufacturer
of blood analysis equipment, and was named (as an acronym) for its three
founders, Tony Bower, Stan Rybb, and John Stoneborough. In 1968, NASA
engineer John Russell, Sr. relocated himself and his family to Canada
from the US and bought the company, where his son Chris set to work designing
the first Bryston amplifier. The Pro 3 made its debut in 1973, and since
that time, Bryston components have become legendary for their hand-assembled
build quality, performance and reliability in both the pro audio and consumer
audio market segments. Bryston amplifiers are utilized in some of the
world’s most renowned recording studios and owned by many discerning
music industry professionals. Bryston applies manufacturing techniques
and materials in the everyday assembly of their electronic equipment that
are more typically utilized by the military and aerospace industries.
Bryston is now based in Peterborough, Ontario Canada, just northeast of
Toronto, and sold through over 150 dealers in North America and 60 countries
worldwide.
