[GTALUG] Linux and Stereo Speaker Cables

Alvin Starr alvin at netvel.net
Tue Mar 15 09:00:00 UTC 2016


wow I am surprised.

PSB Speakers International

633 Granite Court, Pickering, Ontario L1W 3K1, Canada

It would be interesting to know if they manufacture their speaker 
assemblies and not just the enclosures.


On 03/14/2016 10:42 PM, Howard Gibson wrote:
> 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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