Bryston BDP-1 & MinimServer

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(17-04-2015 16:32)DavidHB Wrote:  There is a story I have not got to the bottom of. Early versions of the BDP-1 were explicitly not streamers or renderers; the data source was, I think, USB only. Apparently Bryston were claiming that network streaming compromised sound quality, which is the exact opposite of the line taken by Linn, then and now. The current BDP-1 clearly has network connectivity, and from your description functions as a standard UPnP renderer. It still has USB connectivity, which Linn continues to shudder at. Wouldn't you just like to lock them both in a room for a few hours ...

Please note: some of what follows is a combination of heresy and inferences so please take it for what you will...

The Bryston BDP-1 (and later BDP-2 and BDP-1 USB) has always been a low powered off the shelf industrial/embedded motherboard coupled with a tweaked sounds card to offer SPDIF and AES (where offered) a "audiophile" power supply and running a version of Linux and the MPd music player. Out of the box it was never going to be easy to auto mount a random share to access music so they stipulated a USB drive.

As time and developments came along they added the ability to mount a share off a NAS or PC as an alternative to a directly attached USB drive and the later BDP-2 added the ability to add an internal drive (iirc) as another alternative. Recently the open source community have come up with the ability to utilise MPd as a UPnP server and this has been incorporated into the main MPd programme (as of version 0.19 iirc).

Eloise