"The high end audio can make you easily desperate. For substantial amounts of money you get small shifts in performance and though we subliminally hope for a revolution it rarely happens. Despite this fact I had a strong feeling that BMC Audio had made a revolution happen...."
Living a dream…
To conquer the high-end world is not easy for newcomers. In BMC Audio they have made it even more difficult for themselves: they have entered quite saturated German market, they have made their components visually maybe too distinctive, they have used not so traditional circuit solutions and they have decided to sell their products in an unusual consultancy way. Under normal circumstances such a project would be dead already. However, from the perspective of your listening armchair it is obvious that there is something special going on...
The BMC Audio brand have been existing (at least for the outside world) only for two years, however, the men behind it are reputable professionals. If you recruit top designers of Restek and C.E.C. fame there is a likeliness of coming up with more than just another high end stuff.
BMC Audio has been answering many queries since the components were launched last year as it is not obvious how they are technically accomplished. Also our magazine attacked Manfred Penning, the chief designer of BMC Audio, a few times with a list of questions. By this day they have already released at least some information and I encourage you to check it at their website. I am not going to spend the valuable space of audiodrom to describe the specifications of the BMC machines – rather I am just going to bring your attention to some technical candies they feature.
BMC BD CD1
The BD stands for Belt Driven. A clamp that you find as a part of the CD player can be used either as a paperweight on your desk or as a stabilizer of a CD disc with a flywheel effect. If you decide for the former option the BD CD1 will not work as it will only when it detects the clamp. No wonder that the presence of Carlos Candeias (C.E.C.) in BMC Audio’s team resulted into a belt driven CD player. Such a solution has a lot of assets: smooth and silent operation, it allows for more accurate bearings of the CD turntable and decouples the CD from motor vibrations.
Either one can use the BD CD1 as a superb transport or there is the option (by adding a module) of having a full range CD player with two 24-bit/192kHz Burr-Brown PCM1792 D/A converters. The player sports four Superlink outputs (I will discuss them later), RCA and XLR outputs and the array of digital outputs: Toslink, AES/EBU, coax and BNC.
