pubul57
Responses from pubul57
| Designer Hall of Fame William Shockley of Bell Labs for his contributions to the development of the transistor. | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I've tried very hard to find an amp that would let me sell my CAT JL2, SS, many tube amps, and unfortunately I have not found anything close to the CATs (many amps that sounded wonderful in their own right, and easy amps to live with). This is unf... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame I stupidly neglected to mention Henry Kloss who in addition to many other contribtutions to the audio field, codesigned the AR1 with Ed Vilchur. We also need to remember H.H. Scott for his contribtuions related to tuner technology. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Let's not forget D.T.N. Willamson whose circuit design from the 40s is perhaps the most copied and influential in tube amp history. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame I would think being a modifier is no disqualifier; if you are a great one. Alex's reputation is of being a very skilled practitioner. | |
| Joule Electra LA150 MkII or Lamm LL2 Deluxe? I owned the LL2 and now own the La-150MKII, and matched with the CAT JL2s and Music Refence RM9 MKII amps it is very rich, with great bass weight and detail, yet also quite transparent - this pre is in no way slow and syrypy - it is comparable to ... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame I agree. Vilchur does qualify on at least two fronts. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Mike Sanders of Quicksilver - for consistently high quality, affordable and reliabile tube design without relying on advertising or hobknobbing with industry media wonks.Who invented the transistor? | |
| Designer Hall of Fame I also get the feeling that John Chapman of Bent Audio will one day be elected - for his work on passive TVCs - high quality, high functionality, great business ethics, and of course great sound in the right system. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame I wonder if Audiogon could arrange a mechanism where we could elect 20 folks year one and a slate every year for additions. I find the tale of the designers, their approaches to technical issues, and to some extent their success in the market to b... | |
| Most resolving, transparent amps. Muralman1, I agree. It is why I have a "transparent" setup, and a "musicality" setup. The easiest wat to do that I think is neutrality throughout, and "voicing" with a preamp. | |
| Most resolving, transparent amps. Do great recordings sound better on systems that make bad CDs really terrible, or those on which they to sound decent? I ezpect the answer leads to two types of systems. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Rodman99999, no list is complete without the men you mention, and I am very remiss for not have included Ralph Karsten who has proabably done more than anyone else to bring a well engineered, reliable, and excellent sounding OTL to the market. | |
| Most resolving, transparent amps. Based on what others have told me, Atmasphere. Based on what I have heard, CAT JL2s. | |
| Vandersteen Quatros or B&W 803D's Hi Ken. You might want to start a different thread entitled "Speakers for Close Placement to Back Wall" - you would proably get a lot more response related to the issue. The Quattros definitely will address the issue of controlling bass output eff... |