[GTALUG] Linux and Stereo Speaker Cables

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Alvin Starr <alvin at netvel.net>

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| 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.

I didn't know of Radio Speakers of Canada, but Google found this
interesting article that mentions R.S.C and NRC and PSB
<http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/231/index.html.
It mentions that Ian Masters suggested to
Paul Barton of PSB that he should see Floyd Toole of the NRC.  (I met
Ian once because he was the husband of a schoolmate of mine.)

The article mentions Stanley Lipshitz who I had as a 2nd year calculus
prof.  I also heard him speak at a meeting to the Toronto chapter of
the Audio Engineering Society.

| My guess is that NAFTA and production in China made sure Canadian production
| was killed off.

Mass production, yes.  Audiophile products don't have quite that cost pressure.

| So as much as Harper screwed science in Canada I doubt that he killed off the
| loudspeaker industry.

Right.  But what I said was:

| > I guess Harper cured NRC of this kind of adventures.

I'm talking about curiosity-driven research.  That's probably where
Toole started.  It later became commercially consequential.  That's
not possible in Harper's model of the NRC.