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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
jsujo
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I second David Berning and want to add Jeff Korneff.
rmlfour
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John Ulrick and Simon Thacher of Spectron Audio. First for the developing of the ultimate class D amplifier and second for making it sound like the best tube amp on steroids.
pubul57 OP
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Wow - lot's of "legends". Hard part with so many worthy candidates is narrowing it down to a group of 10. So I'm updating my first 10 inuagural selections:

Nelson Pass, Pass Labs - best SS designer

Roger Modjeski, Music Reference/RAM Labs tubes and classic amps

Ken Stevens, CAT - best transformer coupled amp

Ralph Karsten - Atma-sphere perfecting OTL

Richard Vandersteen - 1 million Elvis fans can't be wrong

Bobby P, Merlin - designer of my favourite and most well sorted speaker.

Ed Meitner - for Digital wizardry

David Hafler - see Richard Vandersteen
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pubul57 OP
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con't
Henry Kloss and Ed Vilchur - go to Wikipedia

Saul Marantz, Sidney Corderman, and William Johnson

Well' that's then sort of.
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