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
My guess is that anyone familiar with the ZH270 and Siegfried amplifiers might have included David Berning among the esteemed list above. Real design innovation rather than among the best of the "me too's".
Some excellent names out here, which I'll gladly second, third, fourth...

A few that I didn't see mentioned:
Paul S. Barton - PSB

Bud Fried - Audax, B&W, Decca cartridges, Dynaudio, Fried, Hiquphon, IMF, Lowther, NAD, QUAD ESL57, ScanSpeak

Ken Kantor - NHT

Mark O'Brien - Rogue

Roger Sanders - InnerSound

Lincoln Walsh - Ohm Walsh
Your mentioning a Jerry reminded my of Jerry Ozment the digital design guru (DACs) behind Altis, Audio Logic, Jadis, VAC and consultant to others. Not well known to many, but those that do, know he is the real deal as a digital designer.