zener wrote:
*Les W
not only for his skills as an engineer , but also for his openess in passing on information and helping other bodges like myself , get the best from their HiFi for minimum expense.*
That's funny. Because I was also very open and generous in passing on information and helping other "bodges" like yourself on PFM get the best from their HiFi for minimum expense (-zero- expense, actually). However, it seems I wasn't quite as welcomed as Les for my efforts. Instead, I was pelted with barbs, threatened with violence, threatenened with censorship, ridiculed, derided, scorned, mocked and asked to shut my fat trap on several occasions. And that was before anyone actually tried the ideas. If God forbid any of the so-called "bodgers" here were brave or open-minded enough to try the "bodges" and it didn't absolutely rock their world, I would probably have my house firebombed. Somehow, it seems that LesW managed to avoid this kind of hysteria. Hmmm.... what a difference an ideology makes....
bob mccluckie wrote:
*The Peter Belt nominations may just be tongue in cheek!*
No, they weren't. And these nominations are not restricted to conventional audio designs. It isn't the Nobel prize.
BradNad wrote:
*Any votes for Roy Gandy? Gandy is an Engineer (Mechanical I think).*
Fine, one vote for Roy Gandy here. But not for his plinths, and not for the fact that he doesn't believe in VTA. Another vote for Peter Belt for his pioneering extension of the isodynamic speaker principle, who's only competition at the time was the electrostatic Quad ESL.