Brennan Recenzje 

Deliver was great, packaged well.
Sound quality through amplifier and speakers excellent. Sonos compatibility good but difficult to set up groups of speakers.
Navigation through unit menu's very poor. App. Is not any better. Unit is not user friendly. I have over 1000 CDs. Started to rip them but gave up after 40 cds. 60% of album information can't be found. Spent hours trying to manually input information. This was useless as some didn't save others disappeared. Couldn't edit info when ripping even albums already ripped.
I have downloaded my collection from my Network hard drive. Disappointed that i had to do this, as they are all MP3 files. This was one of the selling points of the Brennan. No loss in quality if you rip in Flack.
So far mainly played cds direct. As a jukebox it is very poor.
I have been looking at buying one for a few years. Bit disappointed and find my Sonos system better to use.
I feel it is now just an expensive CD player.

This review is about 2.5 years late. I meant to write it in the months after buying my B3 but I guess life got in the way. And, having said that, I can now write with 2.5 years of Brennan B3 experience.

What a machine! I've been collecting music for about 63 years. I've had vinyl right up until the first time I heard CD (early 80s) and have collected CDs since then.

Using the Brennan means that I can listen to ANY of my music (even stuff that was ripped from tape) from the comfort of any room and by use of a simple app. Any album or track can be found in seconds. It's heaven. And playlists can be constructed. Another joy.

The machine rips to FLAC (or MP3 if you're less fussy) and can store thousands of CDs.

The onboard tools are sufficient to keep one's library organised and safe. It allows backup to a USB drive and can perform a scan disc if ever the catalogue goes awry.

I had one problem with mine when a CD exploded in the drive (there must have been a flaw in the CD - it was one of those cheap demo things). The drive was replaced the B3 and back with within a week.

I've used mine both wirelessly and over ethernet. Both have worked perfectly (I'm an old fart and like the security of cable).

When I bought my B3, I was a little nervous as it cost a fair chunk of money but all I can say now is that it was (and is) worth every penny. On the very few occasions that I've failed to understand an aspect, I've been able to access the fantastic forum, which is full of incredibly knowledgeable and helpful users. I don't think I've ever had to wait for more than half an hour for a reply.

Buy one. You deverve it.

Overall a good experience, user guides could be enhanced for first time users, even if by direction to web based guidance, answers are there but need to be discovered

Having taken the plunge and bought the Brennan 3+ and upon receiving it, which took a little longer than expected. I got down to the task of ripping my collection, 200 or so albums in,i was looking through the radio stations to tfy adding a few to the list. This went horribly wrong and i ended up with a flashing screen and nothing else. On researching this issue it was a corrupted boot up card. I contacted Brennan and received a reply a few days later. This confirmed the issue and they offered to send me another sd card, to replace the corrupted one. This took all of 15 minutes to complete and all is well now and ripping through my collection again.

Good experience at the moment quite simple to setup...

Fast delivery - easy to set up

Every CD album I put in and rip comes up as unknown, extremely and useless poor database, albums are from Philips, CBS/Sony, Columbia, RCA etc. a waste of £800 if I have to enter every one of my 3000 or so CDs by album and track and have no artwork! 😡what is actually on the database?? even Mariah Carey Daydream and other big artist CD come up as unknown!

I donf have to rumage through my shelves looking for cd its there at the touch of a button brilliant

I love the product (still very new to it). The app needs a big improvement as it’s no very user friendly. Also a proper instructions manual should come with it.

Follow up:

have had several messages since offering alternative products/solutions which were very fair and generous and also a compensation payment via Paypal

However I had sourced an alternative secondhand unit off Ebay so i was unable to take up these offers but the contact and after was beyond reproach even if the initial transaction less so.

Ordered via website with payment/delivery via Shop

Showed as being prepared for several days, emailed to follow up - Turns out they don't actually have the stock so order was cancelled and refunded.

If product no longer available shouldn’t be possible to order off website.

Brennan acknowledged this saying they didn't know how I had been able to order it as it shouldn't have shown as a stock item.

Having had my JB7 for many years I decided to treat myself to an upgrade, and what an upgrade. The Brennan app makes everything so much easier and the display on the B3+ gives such great detail with album artwork and all in colour. The ordering process was excellent and delivery was good with good tracking details. Set up via the app was easy. Not sure that I'll ever fill the 2TB. Many thanks for a fantastic machine.

When I had a problem you listened unlike members of the forum some of whom were very patronising. Haven't totally configured or deployed yet. So come back in a couple of months apart from the VD drive problems I like it a lot

Quite impressed but was frustrated by the music database and Bluetooth options. House can cause WiFi issues but no sensible message from system - just reverts to next cd upload number. So I'm unsure whether it's cd not on database or WiFi issues. Bought a longer range Bluetooth transmitter to get round Bluetooth distance
Not tested yet

The ordering and service were slick and trouble-free. There was good notice of the delivery date. I am already clearing some time in the diary to start loading up the CDs.

Works fine but software a bit tricky to navigate

It is a pitty, that the Display is only in englisch. The Brennan doesn’t find 20% of the covers to be ripped.
The presets list of radio can’t be changed
The KI doesn’t really help.

From contacting support when the B3 was out of stock to receiving my device and then setting up and playing my first song the whole process has been a real pleasure.
5 CDs ripped, 995 to go, really looking forward to rediscovering all that music I had forgotten about.

Excellent sound quality. It really does live up to the advertising blurb.

I want to purchase your system,but I have a question…once on your hard drive…can I transfer the music to another media..I’m afraid if I load all my music on your system and it breaks..can I back it up to…? Please let me know..I’m not so computer savvy..I need to know basics. Thank you..the SOONER I get your answer..the sooner I’ll buy your system.THANK YOU. LORRIE

Finding the B3+ easy to use (including website). I have already ripped over 600 CD’s without any problems and am finding some that I had long since forgotten about. Easy to play via Sonos speakers.