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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] > > > > | 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 > > [email protected] > > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > -- > Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 > Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 > [email protected] || > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Howard Gibson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
