Bryston's hand-assembled BCD-1 CD player

You read that headline right, CD player. No SACD, DVD, and certainly no format war-bickering HD DVD or Blu-ray. Just the most "perfect sound forever" Redbook audio the Canadians at Bryston can deliver. This player has high-end pedigree: premium DAC's, separate analog and digital power supplies, discrete op-amp Class A analog stage, and the usual output jacks + XLR and AES/EBU. If all the nuts and bolts in the kit aren't enough to let you know you've got a high-end piece of gear, then the 18 pounds of heft will. A cool $2395 puts the last CD player you'll ever need to buy in your rig.

[zargon Posted Sep 6th 2007 1:51PM]

I don't know if I could really justify spending over $2k, though that is nothing compared to other units out there, on just a CD player.

However, I just love Bryston products, mainly for their solid design and build quality. In fact, my dream system includes their amps for driving the speakers. Which of course, their amps are also expensive, $3k+ for the ones I am looking at and I would need more than one.

Got to love their 20 year warranty on their amps and possibly their other products.