Bryston PowerPac Review

Many US readers - or Canadian Colbert Report viewers - are familiar with the Super PAC. But how about the PowerPac?



Should you have a basement loudspeaker - or bargain basement, like our own, the PowerPac 300 is appropriate. Should you have a refined product, the PowerPac 60 is entirely appropriate. Should you have an average home loudspeaker, the Bryston PowerPac120 is right about right.



Now let's talk about the screw. Politicians will say that they take the screw out of you, and into themselves, but they way you attach yourself a PowerPAC is via a screw - four, in fact - at the yore corners. Although you could conceivably come up with another mounting arrangement - bolts and nuts perhaps or just plain strictly cohesion setup, there's no shying away from screws here.



You're going to insert them deeply in your loudspeaker, so be sure you choose a Pro felt-covered model, or else a Black Ash varietal like our own Stratus to allow them to weld.

Keep out of water, and no arcs will comply.

Really pre-Class D amplification, there is no finer variety of amplification.

Who would want anything but Bryston and particularly the PowerPac - although the 28B SST3 is well-regarded, indeed. Given that 25-year warranty, that is.

In our listening, it pulled away from Classe driving the PSB Stratus Gold's to untold heights of imagination.

That is to say that the "lowly" Bryston 28B SST2 is an admirable partner for the Focal Grande Utopia III EM - a humble, $200,000.00 USD loudspeaker (or $400,000.00 CDN in Carbon and Grey).

Now the Bryston in the PowrePAC variety may not be able to raise funds for you, unless you be prosaically inclined.

It is however a very fine period piece of amplification.

You could not ask for a better pro-audio piece of amplification prior to the NCore current of Bruno Putzeys.

Let's give it to Paul Barton of PSB for making one very fine loudspeaker, and to ... of Bryston for making more than one very fine amp.



All three Brystons will give you untold very fine hours of audio.

Now our readership will bar us for saying very fine.

But Brystons, as objects of amplification, are very well-endowed. Not necessarily of current, nor of wattage, nor really of price, nor not of value, but of esteem.

And that, my friends is our finest estimation yt.

JP 2015/08/26
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