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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
waryn
20 posts
 
How about Stefan Kudelski? His equipment is in use by almost every radio and TV station on earth. Surely he must be the most famous of all designers mentioned previously.
jpms
39 posts
 
Mick Malone from Supratek, although now retired, for the way he worked like an artisan with innovative designs and honest prices. Around its great products many people get knowledge and friendship. The prove is the largest forum here at Audiogon: "The Preamp Deal of the Century" with near 3,500 entries.
teddy_bear
112 posts
 
Yves Bernard Andre of YBA, formerly of Goldmund, he is the "blue light inside CDP" man
http://loa.ensta.fr/ilm/staff/groupe.en.html
jpms
39 posts
 
Albert Von Schweikert, because his speakers are among the best in the world and for his innovative concepts like the Acoustic Inverse Replication (A.I.R.) technology that replicate the inverse of the recording microphone signal. Some of his speakers are like musical instruments that one can tune up to the maximum.
ar_t
165 posts
 
Some of the names on this list are absurd. I would think that anyone in the "Designer Hall of Fame" would not include anyone who calls me for advice.

I don't belong in it (even though my peers credit me for one or two notable contributions), so a good handful of the names listed don't belong there either.

I don't think that anyone mentioned Dick Sequerra. A sharp guy, who knows more than I do. He qualifies.
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