Alvin, I bought PSB Avants back in 1979. They still sound fine, and the company still is business. Where do they manufacture them? On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:50:51 -0400 Alvin Starr <alvin@netvel.net> wrote:
Canada had a pretty good audio industry going back quite a ways.
Radio Speakers of Canada was old when I was young but they seem to be long gone now. They made some pretty good speakers in Ontario but they never had quite the sex appeal of Bose or Lansing.
My guess is that NAFTA and production in China made sure Canadian production was killed off.
So as much as Harper screwed science in Canada I doubt that he killed off the loudspeaker industry.
On 03/14/2016 01:12 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca
| I used to write for Audio Scene Magazine, and worked with Floyd Toole at | the National Research Council on loudspeaker evaluation.
I subscribed to that magazine. I think I remember your name on some articles (but my memory is fuzzy on that).
The work at NRC on loudspeakers was groundbreaking. As I understand it, this created a Canadian edge in loudspeaker design that allowed several companies to break into the industry world-wide.
I guess Harper cured NRC of this kind of adventures. <http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/science-under-siege-part-1-1.3091552> <http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/science-under-siege-part-2-1.3098865> <http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/science-under-siege-part-3-1.3101953> (The audio I'm listening to these days; HiFi not required.) --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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