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
Does anybody knows all the knowledge about OTL?,You have your own I have my own,I don't even know the original designer.I have my own design.Maybe I will prove to you the amp one day.I was able to avoid the redundancy of output tubes just like all of the atma's.
John Bedini
James Bongiorno,
Jim Strickland
Dr. Marshall Leach
Dr. Matti Otala
Ivor Tiefenbrun
David Berning, he can't be mentioned enough on this thread. I am currently listening to a 1 watt wonder (Micro ZOTL2) from his latest, more affordable line of amps under the "Linear Audio" name. This new amp makes everything else I own sound broken.
Someone mentioned Israel Blume. I think that was a joke too. The only thing he designed was a nameplate to go on a Chinese piece of gear.
I would nominate
David berning
Paul Joppa of bottlehead.
I "second" the comments of 04-28-10: Gchemie above!

Without question... Seigfried Linkwitz merits the "Designer Hall of Fame" - for designing the best sounding speakers available... in his Orion's and LX521's - without question!
What about Morris Kessler, cofounder of SAE, OEM manufacturer for big name companies, and seller under his own company--ATI? His own amps have gotten excellent reviews. What say you?
Just a FWIW- Harvey didn't do any designs. Its George Kaye that was largely responsible for the NYAL designs- or Julius Futterman.