I know little of design elegance or place in history but the best amp I've heard is Tom.c neurochrome amps. Just music.
I'll second that, Toms amps are exemplary. His approach is a little different to some of the designers mentioned. Many designers are happy with modest THD specs as long as the THD present is predominantly low order. Tom pushes to achieve the lowest THD possible with lots of well controlled feedback. My MOD86 is a true reference amplifier.
I’ll add some folks who made very successful amplifiers -
Tim da paravicni whose designs are just .. legendary
The late, great Ken ishiwata of Marantz
Mr Hiroyasu Kondo of Audio Note (sadly also departed)
Barney Oliver who gave us the first truly high performance solid state amp
And the beat rolls on....
Tim da paravicni whose designs are just .. legendary
The late, great Ken ishiwata of Marantz
Mr Hiroyasu Kondo of Audio Note (sadly also departed)
Barney Oliver who gave us the first truly high performance solid state amp
And the beat rolls on....
I knew some of very good amplifiers but I do not know who designed them.
I learn a lot from Hugh Dean (AKSA). I found his opinion about harmonic profile of the distortion is worked for my design. I admire Scott Wurcer for his knowledge of electronic engineering, Dadod for his creativity. Of course many member here that influences to my tough.
For person who make some book, I like Douglas Self, Bob Cordell, and Dr. Arto Kolinummi.
I have to develop my own design philosophy, because my goal sometime is a little bit different from those great person.
I learn a lot from Hugh Dean (AKSA). I found his opinion about harmonic profile of the distortion is worked for my design. I admire Scott Wurcer for his knowledge of electronic engineering, Dadod for his creativity. Of course many member here that influences to my tough.
For person who make some book, I like Douglas Self, Bob Cordell, and Dr. Arto Kolinummi.
I have to develop my own design philosophy, because my goal sometime is a little bit different from those great person.
Robert A Pease and Jim Williams, I don't think they designed audio amps. But they sure taught us what made them tick.
I don't think he was a designer, he was a marketing front man for Marantz.
I've talked to him and he did not come across as a designer.
Jan
We'll never know all the great ninjas fighting the well known samurai's wars..
One would be Shin Nagakawa , the inventor of Sigma Drive that licenced it to Kenwood and Toshiba, but also a great inventor in low noise smps .
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Same thing with Mark Levinson. I once interviewed him when he was in The Netherlands and decided not to publish it as he didn't really know technical issues; he kept telling me to 'ask my technician'. Marketing is very powerful to position someone. Ask any politician ;-)
Jan
Jan
It has to be Nelson Pass for me. For years I wanted to try this amplifier or that amplifier but since I built my Aleph J's I honestly don't think about amplifiers anymore! And he's generous enough to share his designs with us.
