That is just my opinion, drazh, purely personal, and I am sure others will not hesitate to post their lists of favourites.
Instead of ranking, I shall simply state why I value a few prominent members, each of whom possesses musical attributes I lamentably lack to some extent or other.
I admire rachfan's interpretive insights into the late romantic repertoire, his knowledge of technical matters, music in general and his reverence for a certain type of musical expression and tradition now all too rarely found.
I enjoy m1469's constantly challenging me with her original musico-philosophical conundrums I wouldn't have the imagination to conceive, never mind solve.
I admire Wolfi's musical broadmindedness, easy-going nature and devotion to music, which actually conceals a cast-iron discipline capable of working on things like Styx until completion, and overcoming serious physical issues to play difficult piano music beautifully no matter the time or effort involved.
Derek I have known longer than anyone here, and he has the unswerving courage to stick to his own musical experience, "listen to the little song within him", that which he knows is true, if necessary against the entire body of external musical opinion.
Thal's earthy British humour, my kind of humour, disguises an obviously immense and serious knowledge of scores and older music, which I imagine is in fact pretty rare.
It is all but impossible to listen to an improvisation by quantum without emerging musically richer, without perceiving a glimpse of the true vastness of expression possible from eighty-eight sounds and ten fingers.
Will those six do for starters ? And yes, there are most certainly others. But no way will I ever rank anybody.
Topic: your top 3 members of this forum