In the hi-fi business, the company names that are the most famous are often those that are named after the person who founded them. And in all cases, that person is either a talented engineer, a visionary or a gifted marketer — or sometimes all three. Let me compile a brief inventory of famous hi-fi company founders off the top of my head for you: Paul Klipsch, Saul Marantz, James Bullough Lansing, David A. Wilson, Ray Dolby, Frank McIntosh, Mark Levinson, Nelson Pass, Harold Leak, Dan D’Agostino, Hermann Thorens, Peter Lyngdorf, and Torakusu Yamaha, to name but a few.
There have been quite a few famous hi-fi partnerships as well, such as John Bowers and Roy Wilkins (B&W), Camillo Bang and Svend Olufsen (B&O), Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon (harman/kardon),…
