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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
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almarg
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Lincoln Walsh, who lived from 1903 to 1971, and whose Brook Amplifier Company produced legendary high quality 300B and 2A3 amplifiers in the early 1950's. Brook amplifiers are now highly collectible, btw, and command extremely high prices on the rare occasions when they appear for sale.

He also developed the Walsh driver, which was further developed and marketed by Ohm Acoustics.

Regards,
-- Al
olesonmd
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Brian Cheney - VMPS Audio

While well known for their low end response, VMPS speakers have the most natural (neutral) sounding midrange of any product my ears have laid eyes on. They shine with demanding material (female voices / piano).
beerdraft
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Victor Khomenko and BAT for making simple harder to build circuits with minimal gain stages and no global feedback. My system is 600 watts per channel and has 3 gain stages per channel, well four including the gain stage in source I suppose. That is keeping to the basics of what is best for circuits IMO keeping a short signal path and keeping it straight forward. Too many companies are putting multiple gain stages and feedback in there equipment and when you hear one without all that you realize how much timing, detail, and just raw quick power is affected.
mikkelbreiler
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Peter Walker for the Quad II power amplifier and the ESL 57 electrostat.
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mitchb
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Kevin Edwards of Talk Electronics is genius.
Nelson Pass of Pass Labs
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