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Designer Hall of Fame

There are many great designers out there, and especially in the lore from the golden age, but I'm not to familiar with them. I thought it might be interesting to discuss some of the great designers for engineering skill and knowledge, business integrity, and ultimatley quality of their products. My short list a "hall of fame" if you will of designers working today are: Nelson Pass, Pass Labs Charles Hansen, Ayre Roger Modjeski, Music Reference Ken Stevens, Convergent Audio Technolgy (CAT) Kevin Hayes, VAC and how could I leave Jeff Rowland off? Well it is a short list. Who would you nominate? Pubul57  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread) 03-01-08

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Click title to read one, or click date to read all below it. 03-19-09   Don allen. his amps and pres are without peers. what this ma ...   Coffee2 03-19-09   I would add dan d'agostino, dave wilson and bruce brisson. ...   Dave_b 03-30-09   A.stewart hegeman (stu) . h-k citation 1 and 2 ,dynaco fm-1 ...   Stonedeaf 04-02-09   02-19-09: plutos nelson pass from pass labs is clearly most ...   Redwoodgarden 04-02-09   Has anyone mentioned mark levinson?   Redwoodgarden 04-20-09   And of course i agree with nelson pass.   Jdechamp 04-25-09   I'd like to stick the late bob crump on the list somewhere. ...   Emailists 04-28-09   George wright should be there.   Mercurypdx 04-28-09   George massenburg geoff daking billy woodman bob stuart tim ...   Shadorne 05-04-09   Don garber. the x amp (and all the others, too): the y pre ...   Darosenb 05-08-09   Kevin carter k&k audio   Jtwrace 09-11-09   Peter stein modular electronics [me] back on the wagon after ...   Thermonicavenger 09-13-09   Has been in the business for close to 40 years. his body of ...   Mattigol 09-13-09   Good to hear that peter stein is back. i appreciate the upda ...   Metralla 09-14-09   My post above should have read: audio research founder bill ...   Mattigol 09-16-09   Harold j leak from leak point one fame?   Lonestarsouth 09-16-09   Verity audio speakers. their speakers are gorgeous and sound ...   Hevac1 09-22-09   Unquestionably jim thiel. larry   Lrsky 09-27-09   Larry heard that jim thiel passed away, we shall miss him.   Greeni 10-08-09   Greeni, yes, there are a couple of threads honoring his memo ...   Lrsky 10-12-09   Richard brown of brown electronic labs, manufacturer of one ...   Rsquared 10-24-09   The klipschorns and the allison one are reason enough to get ...   Eagertrader 11-12-09   and, without a doubt, mitch cotter, who designed for the ma ...   Temple 11-15-09   Where is frank mcintosh....sydney corderman!! how bout aver ...   Tjnif 11-16-09   From the netherlands: aalt-jouk van den hul (needles, cartr ...   Peterb 11-24-09   I agree 300 % with richard brown. a individual in a herd of ...   Farmdoc 12-17-09   Interesting thread. there are several listed that i don't ...   Duane 12-19-09   Whoever is in charge of design for focal / jm lab. they desi ...   Tef8568 12-27-09   As long as this has become a list of practically everyone as ...   Apollo66 01-02-10   Hall of fame or simply a who's who? anybody who takes that ...   Vicdamone 01-02-10   Dennis had   Pehare 01-02-10   Lincoln walsh, who lived from 1903 to 1971, and whose brook ...   Almarg 02-02-10   Brian cheney - vmps audio while well known for their low en ...   Olesonmd 02-20-10   Victor khomenko and bat for making simple harder to build ci ...   Beerdraft 02-28-10   Peter walker for the quad ii power amplifier and the esl 57 ...   Mikkelbreiler 03-01-10   Kevin edwards of talk electronics is genius. nelson pass of ...   Mitchb 03-02-10   Beerdraft, it might interest you that victor's partner was a ...   Atmasphere 03-05-10   Indeed it does and i know lots of manufacturers that test ot ...   Beerdraft 03-05-10   Beerdraft, i agree with you that some manufacturers do do th ...   Atmasphere 03-05-10   Atmasphere, i'd love to hear you guys stuff as i've become a ...   Beerdraft 03-05-10   Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - if it doesn't ...   Pubul57 03-06-10   Does atma-sphere even make solid state amps. i don't see an ...   Beerdraft 03-08-10   Beerdraft, no, we don't make transistor amps. we're known fo ...   Atmasphere 03-09-10   For the record...... bat amps are not otl. so i'm not quite ...   Prdprez 03-09-10   More to the point of the thread..... i'd have to agree with ...   Prdprez 03-09-10   John curl has to be listed somewhere on this list - one of t ...   Pubul57 03-09-10   Prdprez, victor's first prototype was essentially an otl, us ...   Atmasphere 04-27-10   Tim de paravicini   Slaw 04-27-10   Slew, good one how about tim isaacs.   Shadorne 04-28-10: Gchemie How can one omit the legendary Siegfried Linkwitz of crossover fame. Besides that, he designed probably the best loudspeaker ever, the Linkwitz Orion++. This amazng dipole speaker is a full-range with active analog crossovers that can be adjusted and multichanneled amplifier, such as the ATI AT6012, which is rated at 60 watts/channel with all 12 channels driven simultaneously. This allows each amp channel to separately drive each tweeter, midrange, and woofer. As any knowledgable audiophile knows, active crossovers with separately powered speaker drivers get the most and best out of speaker designs--particularly in dipole designs. One of the great and informative audio sites is linkwitzlab.com Besides containing a plethora of auido knowledge, it also has the speakers he offers, from the plans, to partially built models, to completely finished models. This allows those that are very handy to save considerable money for one of the top 2 or 3 speakers in the world. This is probably why one never sees an Orion on sale in the used marketplace. People just never want to part with them. Gchemie  (Answers | This Thread)

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