[sfraser]

James, when you have the time, and if it has not already been covered before, I would be really interested in hearing  how Bryston develops a new product from inception to 1st sale?  For instance, who on the team comes up with the new idea's (BDP-1 for example). Also who has final say regarding when a product is ready? (listening VS Engineering)  I assume you follow some ISO practises for product life cycle &  project gating etc?

Cheers, and thanks

Scott

P.S. Glad to hear the pre-release uptake has been good for the BDP-1

[1ZIP]

Great question!

[James Tanner]

James, when you have the time, and if it has not already been covered before, I would be really interested in hearing  how Bryston develops a new product from inception to 1st sale?  For instance, who on the team comes up with the new idea's (BDP-1 for example). Also who has final say regarding when a product is ready? (listening VS Engineering)  I assume you follow some ISO practises for product life cycle &  project gating etc?

Cheers, and thanks

Scott

P.S. Glad to hear the pre-release uptake has been good for the BDP-1

I decide

james

PS - I will put something together.

james

[vegasdave]

Cool.

[werd]

He calls Werd to get the big  up and the ok to sell.

[James Tanner]

Hi,

In answer to your question regarding how we arrive at new products to offer our customers.

Generally we traditionally get feedback from our dealers and distributors as to what product they would like to see Bryston producing.  We then will think about whether it fits into our philosophy and move forward on the idea if it agrees with our design criteria (function precedes form).

I am usually the one to make the decision as to when the product is worth presenting to our customers or not.  I leave the engineering issues up to the experts as far as design and manufacturing issues are concerned but ultimately it has to sound/perform better than what I currently have or have access to in order to continue the development.

With the BDP-1 it developed from my frustration in assembling a digital server type system and recognizing that playing high resolution (up to 192/24) files and using a system off the network was not going as well as I had hoped.

Being a small specialty company gives me a lot of autonomy when it comes to developing new products and I should probably do much more market research before acting on some of these ideas. But, my feeling is given our target customer I hopefully represent a reasonable example of the type of customer who will appreciate what we do.


James

[1ZIP]

....so in truth, you really are..."da man"! 

[sfraser]

Thanks James.

So when you sit down with Engineering and tell them what you are looking for, how much detail do you give them? Where I work, when we are designing new features/products  we create a document called a PRD or "Product Requirements Document" . The PRD  will give the specific operational and performance parameters required for the feature/product being developed.  Would you do that? Or would you give them the high level design, and Engineering would distil it into a low level design with interaction with you and later a prototype?

 

[Robert D]

....so in truth, you really are..."da man"! 

James is


The Man !

Robert

Keep up the Good Work Buddy

[James Tanner]

Thanks James.

So when you sit down with Engineering and tell them what you are looking for, how much detail do you give them? Where I work, when we are designing new features/products  we create a document called a PRD or "Product Requirements Document" . The PRD  will give the specific operational and performance parameters required for the feature/product being developed.  Would you do that? Or would you give them the high level design, and Engineering would distil it into a low level design with interaction with you and later a prototype?

Hi - yes I would go to engineering with an idea and they would come back to me with what would be involved in producing an early prototype to assess whether the idea has merit or not.

james

[alexone]

...it's James' own enthusiasm that brings out these audio products . given that the amps have SST (Super Stuart Taylor), the MPS-2 (Mike Pickett...) the BDP-1 should be named JDP-1 (James Digital Player)...

al.

[JRace]

What are you doing in that picture James?
Recharging your batteries?

[James Tanner]

What are you doing in that picture James?
Recharging your batteries?

Yes - its a long day sometimes at audio shows

[vegasdave]

haha.