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PhD Trond Sæther (whose research field is on electronics) says Bryston is a Canadian gourmet producer of high-end audio equipment in the absolute top class.

Source (It is his review (dated July 2006) on Bryston SP1.7 and Bryston PP300):
http://www.audiophile.no/omtaler/hjemmekinoforsterkere/item/336-bryston-sp17-prosessor/pp300-sst-monoblokker

Some citations (direct translations to english) on what PhD Trond Saether writes about Bryston in his review are shown in italics :

 Bryston is a Canadian gourmet producer of high-end audio equipment in the absolute top class. Bryston offers something as unusual as 20 years guarantee on their products.  This must imply that they are absolutely convinced on the quality.

On Bryston's design and build quality:
It is in its interior that the products by Bryston really shines like a jewel. The components are of top quality. The mountage  is solid and in the absolute top class like it is on expensive medical and military equipment.

On the Bryston SP1.7 Surround Prosessor's six Crystal CS43122 DACs:
... one of the absolutely best on the market.

More on the Bryston SP1.7 Surround Processor:
The majority of producers are satisfied with standard op amp chips from one or another producer, while Bryston builds their own circuit cards where they use transistors with low noise being carefully matched and selected.

Another detail  contributing to good sound is that the SP1.7 does not contain a single video function. This is a significant positive thing implying reduced noise inside the cabinet. It is also a relief, since it has always annoyed me to to pay for video circuits I have never used in any surround product I have ever owned.

On Bryston PP300ST:
Mid range/the upper range  is soft like silk... .
Perspective and three dimensionality were as expected of the absolute top class... .

On changing from his Trivista to Bryston SP1.7:
The sound from Trivista was changed to precision at the level of a surgeon using an extremely sharp scalpel....  I immediately understood why Bryston is so popular in professional studios... . The sound experience will be excellent if the recording is well done. In both stereo and in multi channel, SP1.7 has a fantastic ability to communicate micro details, dynamics and perspective.

Written in Sæther's conclusion:

Together with the PP330 SST or the 4B SST, the SP1.7 will give you reference sound of studio class, with reliability and durability strength guaranteed to last for 20 years.

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Trond Saether is a Professor at NTNU (NTNU = Norwegian University of Science and Technology). 
Saether's research field is in electronics.  Trond Sæther is one of the four founders of Nordic  Semiconductor ASA (established in 1983).  Sæther's  responsibilities at Nordic Semiconductor: R&D (Research and Development)  projects and as (to 2006) technical director.

Information on Nordic Semiconductor is found here:
http://www.nordicsemi.com/
More info on Sæther:
http://no.linkedin.com/pub/trond-s%C3%A6ther/11/950/345
Info on the faculty at NTNU where Professor Sæther is working:
http://www.ime.ntnu.no/english 

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Trond Saether is a Professor at NTNU (NTNU = Norwegian University of Science and Technology). 
Saether's research field is in electronics.  Trond Saether is one of the four founders of Nordic  Semiconductor ASA (established in 1983).  Saether's  responsibilities at Nordic Semiconductor: R&D (Research and Development)  projects and as (to 2006) technical director.

Information on Nordic Semiconductor is found here:
http://www.nordicsemi.com/
More info on Saether:
http://no.linkedin.com/pub/trond-s%C3%A6ther/11/950/345
Info on the faculty at NTNU where Professor Saether is working:
http://www.ime.ntnu.no/english

[vegasdave]

Awesome. That ain't no bs when a guy like this says that about Bryston!

[V]

Awesome. That ain't no bs when a guy like this says that about Bryston!

The below picture shows some of the scientific papers which Trond Sæther has co-authored (in journals like http://www.springer.com/engineering/circuits+%26+systems/journal/10470 ) and talks held at conferences like IEEE International Conference on Electronics:




The text in the picture is hard to read so I paste it as text as well:



 Tittel Forfatter År  Materiale
 High-level continuous-time sigma delta design in Matlab/simulink / Rune Kaald ... [et al.] Kaald, Rune
Sæther, Trond
 2009 
 Current-mode capacitive sensor interface circuit with single-ended to differential output capability Singh, Tajeshwar
Sæther, Trond
Ytterdal, Trond
 2009 
 Feedback biasing in nanoscale CMOS technologies Singh, Tajeshwar
Sæther, Trond
Ytterdal, Trond
 2009 
 Review and advances in delta-sigma DAC error estimation based on additive noise modelling / Ivar Løkken ... [et al.] Løkken, Ivar
Vinje, Anders
Sæther, Trond
 2009 
 Tuning of resist slope with hard-baking parameters and release methods of extra hard photoresist for RF MEMS switches / Shimul Chandra Saha ... [et al.] Saha, Shimul Chandra 1977
Fjeldly, Tor A.
Sæther, Trond
 2007 
 Tuning of resist slope with hardbaking parameters and release methods of extra hard photoresist for RF MEMS switches / Shimul Chandra Saha ... [et al.] Saha, Shimul Chandra 1977-
Sæther, Trond
Sagberg, Håkon..m.fl..
 2007 
 Design criteria for low distortion in feedback opamp circuits Hernes, Bjørnar
Sæther, Trond
 2003 
 A back gate tuned PFET VCO in 0.35 μm CMOS Typpö, Jukka
Hammer, Michael
Sæther, Trond
 2001 
 A New universal UV-programmable floating-gate digital element with application to an 8-transistor full-adder and a D-latch / Snorre Aunet ... [et al.] Aunet, Snorre
Sæther, Trond
 2001 
 A New 2-MOSFET universal floating-gate element for reconfigurable digital logic Aunet, Snorre
Sæther, Trond
 2001 
 Four-MOSFET floating-gate UV-programmable elements for multifunction binary logic / Snorre Aunet ... [et al.] Aunet, Snorre
Tjore, Odd
Sæther, Trond
 2001 
 Novel reconfigurable two-MOSFET UV-programmable floating-gate circuits for CARRY, NAND, NOR or INVERT functions / Snorre Aunet ... [et al.] Aunet, Snorre
Sæther, Trond
 2001 
 A Method for simulation of floating-gate UV-programmable circuits with application to three new 2-MOSFET digital circuits / Snorre Aunet ... [et al.] Aunet, Snorre
Ytterdal, Trond
Sæther, Trond
 2001 

[vegasdave]

Impressive!