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
I must add Linkwitz for his revolutionary contributions to speaker design, and Rozenblit for making the OTL amp practical.
Mark Porzilli, the designer of the revolutionary Memory Player deserves a nomination. He also designed the Scaena and Pipedreams line array speakers and prior to that the Melos amps and preamps.
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Jim Strickland and some of the pioneering work he did with panels during the Acoustat era of the 70’s and later on his Trans-Nova FET power amps.

Also should mention Jim Winey of Magnepan fame as well.