[GTALUG] Linux and Stereo Speaker Cables

[Howard Gibson]

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 at 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 at 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.)
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