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
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.
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.

Best regards,
-- Al
Pubul, I actually got to meet him at the 1984 CES, and heard his Eagle 7a/Electro Research/strain gage set up. From what I heard that day, this guy was in a league of his own.
Seems worthy of a screenplay. Who could we get to play Iverson? Russell Crowe?