Bryston BDA-1 manual

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    The Bryston BDA-1 is a State-of-the-Art external Stereo digital to analog converter using fully discrete analog class-A propri- etary Bryston amplier circuits. BDA-1 FEA TURES: • Dual 192K/24Bit Crystal DAC’ s (CS-4398’ s) • Separate analog and digital linear power supplies • Discrete Class A analog output stage • Over-sampling • S[...]

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    on standby . If neither this LED nor any other LED on the front panel is illuminated then there is no power entering the unit or the internal fuse is blown. See also Remote T rigger section. 8: INPUT SIGNAL LED INDICA TORS: There are 8 LEDs to indicated which input has been selected. The LED will light green when a PCM signal is present at the sele[...]

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    computer) this cable will be a DB9-male to DB9- female straight through cable. 3) IF your computer does not contain an RS232 se- rial port, but does contain a USB port, there are modestly priced USB to RS232 serial port adaptors available. 4) Upon execution the dialog box at the right will be displayed. Click on OK and the program will search for t[...]

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    IMPORT ANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of un- insulated “dangerous voltage “ within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of elec- tric shock to persons . The exclamation point within an eq[...]