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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. 05-01-10   Looking back over this thread, one is struck by how much thi ...   Pubul57 05-01-10   John g. iverson, without question. the only high-end designe ...   Gaslover 05-03-10   That jgi story is really weird, isn't it?   Pubul57 05-25-10: Decibelcat Major Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio. Alan Dower Blumlein, who devised a practical way to record and play back stereo in the late 1930's while working for EMI. Blumlein came up with the idea of the 45/45 method of cutting stereo records and his Sum/Differnce matrix is what makes FM stereo work. Georg Neumann for inventing the first practical condenser microphone. Fletcher, Munson and Snow at Bell Labs and Harry Olsen at RCA for their improvements and innovations in in film sound, where early Hi-Fi has its roots. Frank McIntosh for his Unity Coupled Transformer circuits. Decibelcat  (Answers | This Thread) 05-25-10   also the inventor of the superheterodyne method of radio rec ...   Almarg 05-26-10   Pubul, i actually got to meet him at the 1984 ces, and hear ...   Gaslover 06-01-10   Seems worthy of a screenplay. who could we get to play ivers ...   Pubul57 06-03-10   He was more of a clint eastwood type, as memory serves.   Gaslover 06-04-10   Yeah, a clint eastwood with lazers!! i understand he demonst ...   Atmasphere 06-04-10   There is something almost gumpish about this story. next i e ...   Pubul57 06-12-10   Steve mccormack   Slaw 06-30-10   based on what i am hearing from a magtech amp i just pur ...   Soundlock 07-19-10   How about horace short? his amplifier was ground-breaking in ...   Auxetophone 07-20-10   Myself off course (i m joking ) . i would suggest andy payo ...   Andromedaaudio 10-09-10   Richard brown (deceased) brown electronics labs (bel). rel2   Rel2 10-24-10   I'd nominate any of the builders of chinese built products t ...   Coltrane1 10-25-10   Coltrane - i believe the op was referring to great designers ...   Sebrof 10-25-10   Sebrof - any designer that can produce a product that produc ...   Coltrane1 10-25-10   Coltrane - i guess i missed the posts where people showed cl ...   Sebrof 10-25-10   My sense of great design has little to do with manufacturing ...   Pubul57 01-17-11   David reich's class'e audio designs were wonderful. i had a ...   5560 02-08-11   Friedrich schaefer of asr emitter fame... whether or not yo ...   Davvie 02-12-11   agree with the respondents...i've only observed alan hill/p ...   C1ferrari 02-13-11   mr. israel blume of coincident technogy. this man designs a ...   Allchemie 03-04-11   Ed meitner. hands down!   Jayb77 03-04-11   The number 1 digital man?   Pubul57 03-05-11   Without ed meitner we would probably still be listening to r ...   Jayb77 03-05-11   Please no ridicule(but if you must,go ahead). although i am ...   Mrdecibel 03-07-11   Hope i spell this right....what about james borgino from sae ...   Magnus89 03-07-11   There seem to be many, many folks that we admire and have ma ...   Pubul57 03-09-11   Israel blume, his coincident speakers, power amplifiers, lin ...   Charles1dad 03-09-11   That's very true, you don't see that kind of protean talent ...   Pubul57 07-30-11   Oskar heil, inventor of the ess transducer, lincoln walsh th ...   Armyscout41 08-24-11   I've come to find many of these "legends" really a ...   Bwcanuck 08-25-11   David hafler....rip   Paul_graham 08-28-11   Tom collangelo of cello...   Kapa11 08-30-11   In no particular order... jon dahlquist, saul marantz, jim w ...   Fhet 08-30-11   Imagine having to pick just 5 for the inaugural selection:)   Pubul57 08-31-11   Apologies if i missed it and this is a repeat but my top of ...   Richard_stacy 09-04-11   What five in the writer/reviewer's hall of fame - after jgh ...   Pubul57 09-05-11   Bwcanuck, great music has always been linked to great equip ...   Tabl10s 09-05-11   Three manufacturers of great british tube amps. arthur radf ...   Topoxforddoc 09-06-11   Jim winey - magnepan john curl - mark levinson, parasound ot ...   Apostrophe 09-09-11   I scanned the responses, but, to my surprise, did not see my ...   Abigler 09-17-11   Leonardo da vinci should be mentioned regarding history and ...   Armyscout41 12-14-11   Yes include david hafler in the designer hall of fame. he wa ...   Nordic587 12-15-11   Did ed vilchur recently pass away? sure did influence the a ...   Pubul57 12-20-11   Daniel von recklinghausen, the head engineer at h.h. scott.   Domo 12-24-11   Cary rocket 88   Analog59 01-06-12   Sid smith designer of most early marantz's   Chrispass 01-29-12   Israel blume dan wright phil jones (loudspeaker designer v.g ...   Jfpmft 02-24-12   Billy woodman-atc chris russell-bryston   Dave_72 03-28-12   Paul grzybek of tube audio design, of the famed tad-1000, ta ...   Btaudio 06-03-12   Bob carver would be on my short list   Turbomustang 06-04-12   Manuel huber-fm acoustics   Dave_72 08-10-12   Additional info on edgar villchur mentioned in this thread w ...   Audiozen 08-10-12   Phase technology company in florida..another game changer.. ...   Audiozen 08-13-12   John atkinson..give me a break. he became the very creature ...   Audiozen 08-30-12   Has anyone mentioned roy allison yet? i am a major fanboy o ...   Aewhistory 08-31-12   At this moment i think i would like to mention: david berni ...   Jsujo 09-20-12   I think john atkinson was mentioned as a joke. afik, he was ...   Dracule1 09-20-12   I have to give another shout out bob carver. he is not know ...   Dracule1 09-27-12   I realize saul marantz and jon dahlquist have already been m ...   Jjurkens 11-07-12   Giovanni mariani, of graaf fame, should definitely be on thi ...   Msallen 01-03-13   Leopold stowkowski..in 1934, stokowski was conductor of the ...   Audiozen 01-05-13   I will definitely add paul weitzel of trl (tube research lab ...   Lissnr 01-14-13   I have a list... lincoln walsh, peter snell, jon dahlquist, ...   Anlgsd 02-13-13   Jim strickland brian cheney i've always wanted to hear vmps ...   Llanger 03-10-13   Dan d agistino for pioneering american solid state,mathew bo ...   Audiolabyrinth 05-10-13   Fyi - a uk perspective which embraces the finest of the usa ...   Bigaitch 05-11-13   Vmps speakers were certainly unique. it was a sad day when w ...   Response34 05-11-13   Sidney harman of bogen and the original harman-kardon (1950s ...   02pete 05-19-13   Julian vereker of naim audio frank van alstine of audio by v ...   Rogercr

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