Don't really buy into this fandom and realistically most of the audio companies listed are working on stuff way too "simple" to catch my interest so I am loathe to pick individuals. But, if I had to make a choice, I would take Burr-Brown and ADI in their haydays of converter design, with Toole at the National Research Council in Canada, Fraunhofer Institute when they were developing MP3 and working on AAC, heck I would take BOSE when they were developing the original acoustics for the Vette over most of the choices.
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Whoever invented and was making those small suitcase looking record players used for playing 45 rpm singles. They provided more people more fun than the most expensive systems ever could. Lo-fi, hi-fun. In second place whoever invented the transistor radio you borrowed from your Mom so you could listen to the "Top Forty" wherever you were around the neighborhood. Same principle, different application. Mike |
In second place whoever invented the transistor radio ....@skyscraper, fyi, the first commercially produced transistor radio is considered to be the Regency TR-1. Surviving examples are highly prized by antique radio collectors, and go for many hundreds of dollars these days, or even a good deal more than that depending on condition and color. Regards, -- Al |
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