Pioneers in the history of higher end/accurate sounding components....and you..


Not a contest, just what good people that made good sounding "gear" helped you on your journey?

Mine would be Henry Kloss, Tom Holman, Saul Marantz, and some very, very good people representing those and other companies.  In going to the early CES shows in Chicago, and events in NYC and other cities, some of my best education, experiences and "times" were with some of the "other" people that worked for those companies that were not the big names.  When the store I worked at was a major Advent speaker dealer I/we spent time at the Drake Hotel in Chicago with some simply great, helpful and wise people from Advent. 


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This guy!
Edgar VillchurAcoustic suspension was invented in 1954 by Edgar Villchur, and brought to commercial production by Villchur and Henry Kloss with the founding of Acoustic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts Speaker cabinets with acoustic suspension can provide well controlled bass response, especially in comparison with an equivalently-sized speaker enclosure that has a bass reflex port or vent.
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I have never lived such a charmed life as MC.  No one has ever pulled strings allowing me access into the Talon room nor has Michael Fremer ever "called me" for a "nice long talk" (note MC didn't call Fremer nor was is it a brief talk...ha...whatever) to help me through a component buying decision.  So much for the OP's opening words "Not a contest...".