Edgar Villchur has passed.

RuSsMaN
RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
edited October 2011 in The Clubhouse
A true innovator, one of the great men of audio.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/business/edgar-m-villchur-hi-fi-innovator-dies-at-94.html

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Towards the end, my favorite quote 'A student of mine, Henry Kloss....'.

I spoke with Adam Sohmer earlier this evening, and he actually got to interview Villchur at his home in Woodstock for AR's 50th anniversary. It was sponsored (and confiscated) by Recoton. Apparently Edgar let loose on how they ruined the brand.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited October 2011
    Thanks for the post. He reminds me of several audio guys I have met over the years. :cool:
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited October 2011
    R.I.P. Ed. You were the man.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited October 2011
    An amazing man. Right up there with Jobs when you think about how many folks benefit from his breakthroughs.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited October 2011
    inspiredsports almost literally took the words out of my mouth (OK, away from my fingertips). An amazing man, indeed. One of the last of the hifi titans (although last I knew one of his other "students", Roy Allison, is still around).

    There was a pretty good interview with Villchur and Allison in Stereophile not all that many years back (2005):
    http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/105villchur
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited October 2011
    A true legend....what I find most interesting is that Villchur was not an 'audio guy' per se......I think he just saw problems and looked for solutions and wasn't all that interested int he surrounding BS.

    One shot in me, one shot in the ground.

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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited October 2011
    A very interesting figure...I didn't know much about this history, but what a combo that must have been, there, at the early AR: Villchur and Kloss.

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