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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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Looking back over this thread, one is struck by how much this hobby is really dominated by the talent and labor of talented individuals, to some extent more important than companies. Why it is such a good idea to meet so many of them at places like RMAF.
gaslover
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John G. Iverson, without question. The only high-end designer to be kidnapped (and subsequently disappeared for good) by the FBI!! So the story goes.
pubul57 OP
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That JGI story is really weird, isn't it?
decibelcat
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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.
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almarg
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Major Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio.
Also the inventor of the superheterodyne method of radio reception (used in nearly all modern tuners, radios, and tv's). And in the early days of radio, the inventor of regeneration and super-regeneration. Truly one of the more remarkable figures in the history of technology.

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-- Al
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