Quote:   DAC - Bryston BDA-2  Amp - Bryston BHA-1   IMO, totally works well with both. With the LCD3, it brings it a greater sense of detail, instrumental separation and soundstage. It also made the bass better defined. It brought the LCD3's closer to a more neutral sound if...

Quote:   Meh, facts be facts (you were there and there is nowhere else in Australia you could have tried the Abyss) and all power to A2A for being probably the only retailer of its kind if Australia where you have lots of proper headphone gear to audition and buy at non rip-off prices...

+1 for Addicted to Audio (where you tried these in Melbourne), Guillaume/Rendra/George are awesome.    It's good to hear that they aren't a total flop in their own right (cable company makes first pair of headphones ever and they're planar magnetic and cost $5k whuttt) :)

Quote:   Working on that and its really doing my head in.   All the variants out there and not being able to try any of them for myself. Happy for anyone reading this to PM me if they have any 2c they'd like to share.

Nice review dan.   I completely agree with your sentiments re the difference between the HD800 and LCD3. I find that with a fairly neutral SS amp, these two headphones really come into their own. Personally, I found that I didn't have a very clear bias in terms of sound signature preference...

Quote:   Stop looking and start buying! They're both seriously awesome products and will go very nicely with both the LCD3 and HD800 :)

Quote:   Greed is good ;)   Yeah, I did love the HD800 from the second I heard it but the same went for the LCD3 which I went with first thinking I'd use them slightly more.   I have this stupid appreciation of both sound signatures and totally agree they now cover me for anything...

Some drool-worthy setups in here. Maybe someday after a mortgage/wife/kids I'll have Stax in an awesome man cave :(   My humble entry below. Crappy picture taken with my Samsung Galaxy S2. Got both headphones brand new today. And no, I didn't buy both out of the blue. The LCD3s are a brand...

Just got a new pair of LCD3s today and my FR graph seems to be quite different to yours :S        

Just got the HD800 today. Highly, highly recommend this combination of gear.    

In case I'm blind, has Trevor publicly confirmed that he's going to stop trading permanently somewhere?   It will be tragic if he does as I was holding out for his Pure Silver Reign for my LCD3. Nobody styles them like he does, especially with those Zebrano Y-splitters :(

I blame you all for this...     Daily first world problems, here I come.

Quote:   +1, literally listening to BDA-2/BHA-1/HD800 atm and finding it simply superb

Damn this thread and you guys.   I'm desperately trying to convince myself that I don't want to buy the HD800s because I painstakingly chose LCD3s over them. Most bittersweet decision ever when you're dumb like I am and enjoy both sound signatures. I really think it's just a mood/genre...

Quote:   Totally agreed. Just as it was with my previous Violectric rig (V800 feeding V100 via XLR) and my current one (BDA-2 feeding BHA-1 via XLR, whereby I had the V800 coupled with the BHA-1 before buying the BDA-2), I feel as though the DAC's I've chosen have made an equally, if not...

Good point Max, if some admin is reading this, it would be good if we could,   a)Rename this thread properly to be the "Bryston BHA-1" thread b)Transfer all the BDA talk to a "Bryston BDA-1/BDA-2" thread

Quote:   Awesome review - good to see that most of his findings were similar to mine and that I wasn't just hearing things :)

Trevor, I know you're a busy man but any chance you could provide an update on how you're going with your pure silver cables which aren't too far away from being released?

Quote:   Thanks, they most certainly do. I've said time and time again and will continue to do so, the LCD3 and HD800 are both excellent to me with this setup.    Quote:   Sorry for the late response. Before I say anything, some headline notes for readers to take into account...

Thought I'd weigh in here a little.   I was comparing a pair of USB cables over the weekend with my Bryston BDA-2 / Bryston BHA-1 / LCD-3 rig - a random cable that came with my Dell monitor and the Wireworld Starlight.   I must have swapped it out at least 10 times to try and isolate a...

King - at least they tried to be helpful.   I for one wouldn't mind this thread being revived as I don't see enough interconnect threads around here and am currently on the look out for some myself!

Thought I'd add here in case anyone was interested - I bought the BDA-2 over the weekend and have spent a few hours with it since.   I am totally, totally in love with it. These Bryston products look (my profile pic) and sound terrific together. The BDA-2 has really lifted my rig and...

Quote:   +1. Having spent a few hours with the BDA-1 on USB from a laptop with a BHA-1 and LCD3's, it is amazing. Did a blind test with the BDA-1 and V800 (which I own) and picked the difference to my amazement. Having said that, it wasn't like a mindblowing difference and if anything, I...

Yet another person with the same questions/concerns. R Giskard - I have exactly the same behaviour and having been through this a while ago, I believe it is normal and as per design (which James has articulated a few posts up).   James, perhaps something around the communications/material...

Quote:   As a relatively junior audiophile with an even more noob girlfriend who owns a Violectric V800/V100 stack and Q701's, I told her that I wouldn't need to sell her the HD800's and that she'd have decided on it within the first minute of listening before spending the next hour or so...