What you do in the privacy of your apartment is your business. Leave me out of it. 😀
So only amplifier designers deserve to be known? Strange. Forgot Sidney Harman of course, he really is known of globally. As far as I was aware Vinnie was hawking battery packs until last year when he launched stuff under his own name, which measures like true high end stuff. So to me newbie. Well known on some of the forums does not make one a legendary designer, or even a competent one.
according to him, Sid's stuff always blew up when he worked for Bogen at least. He would never describe himself as an amp designer. I suspect Bernie Kardon did the integration of things into "receivers" back at the Dawn of Harman/Kardon.
And still lower-mass. It will be interesting to see how the proponent of the theory that dark matter is a bunch of moderate-mass isolated primordial black holes can fine-tune his theory to account for still smaller-mass ones.
Hadn't he told you how the purifier work? (Of course he did)
I don't understand how he can design a "purifier" when he seems to not sure what is going on...? (or he does?)
On measuring S/N or distortion...
I think the normal way of measuring S/N or distortion will not reveal this "thing". The scope should be limited (e.g. measuring only the high order distortion components).
I believe the nature of this thing is short term, burst, (very) high frequency. So the measurement should look for some kind of transient spike...
While many engineers tend to emphasize human's ears limitation, the funny thing is they still use pulse (square wave) to test an amplifier. The question is WHY??? WHAT FOR???
I believe that the pulse test DO work, even if the concerned frequency is way outside what people call "audible range". (Ah.... Inter modulation?)
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You're thinking too hard Bill. It was just a question about how many names of designers people knew. I assume that meant electronics designers since they're less known, and that's Marsh's repitoire.
If you think one's recognition is dependent on this thread I believe you might be overestimating the relevance of the thread to the world... just because we have to check it a few times a day to keep up...
Vinnie R. sold battery based equipment, of his original design DAC's, preamps, and amps. Look I don't think he's as good as say Pass at designing amps but that's not the point. Right now he's hot stuff so people know the name.
This is all "big fish in a very very small pond" no less. We're all unique sunflowers, just like everyone else.
Honestly don't think I could name any designers that aren't on this site regularly. And even that, probably not recognize them as designers.
Honestly don't think I could name any designers that aren't on this site regularly. And even that, probably not recognize them as designers.
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But he's only hot stuff on a couple of forums and 6 loons. Not sure his stuff is even sold in europe. Even in the 0.1% of the population who read audio mags he's not well known. You clearly hang out on certain forums and read certain web publications so think he is well known. I think you are mistaken. but the average punter will go 'rossi', what the bike racer? (or worse 'wasn't he in status quo?') 🙂
Bill, lots of people were in his rooms at Axpona. And he's in Stereophiles top recommended for 2015 and 2016.
Having heard it, I don't think it's perfect or up to my snuff. However for the price it allows someone to get an actually low fatigue system that would be complicated and expensive otherwise; so long as you have efficient speakers. For those that want to downsize or just not have fatigue on a budget it's a wonderful product.
Having heard it, I don't think it's perfect or up to my snuff. However for the price it allows someone to get an actually low fatigue system that would be complicated and expensive otherwise; so long as you have efficient speakers. For those that want to downsize or just not have fatigue on a budget it's a wonderful product.
6000 people went to Axpona. A household name that does not make. Also oddly stereophile is not that well read outside America. Actually in the grand scheme not well read inside either these days. That's my point. A small percentage of a small percentage is not many.
Tomlinson Holman
Erno Borberly
James Bongiorno
Paul McGowan
Malcolm Hawksford
Richard Burwen
Edward Cherry
Stanley Lipschitz
Marshall Leach
Richard Vandersteen
Dave Wilson
Andrew Jones
Someone posted the two data sets today, the second needed a lot of noise removal. The units are in strain, which makes sense, somewhere in the 10^^-21 or 22. Someone asked how close would this have to be to feel it estimating that would be 1% strain. A physicist answered, about 2000 miles and there would be a lot more to worry about.
Tom H. is at Apple, so no gossiping allowed.
If your list includes so many dead guys, then you probably should add Bose.
Then there are really influential designers like Gerald Stanley. But the Rock It advertising campaign around him really fell flat.
Some names I know from patents. But I have met more influential designers at trade events, particularly at the bar. First met Earl G. at the Irish pub in Manhattan during an AES.
Also got some nice emails and other bits from a piece I did for Linear Audio.
Some names I know from patents. But I have met more influential designers at trade events, particularly at the bar. First met Earl G. at the Irish pub in Manhattan during an AES.
Also got some nice emails and other bits from a piece I did for Linear Audio.
Oops, you meant to type "Paul Klipsch"
Oops, you meant to type "Peter Walker"
Oops, you meant to type "John Linsley Hood"
Oops, you meant to type "Peter Baxandall"
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