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Post by ChrisB on Dec 16, 2017 12:47:10 GMT
I've got a sudden burning desire to know what the 'A' and the 'R' in A&R Cambridge/ARCAM stood/stands for.
Does anyone know?
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Post by MartinT on Dec 16, 2017 13:01:59 GMT
Calling @rectified !
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 16, 2017 13:04:12 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Dec 16, 2017 13:40:46 GMT
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 16, 2017 13:44:12 GMT
That'll do it, thanks a lot.
Google wasn't being my friend when I tried looking though!
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Post by MartinT on Dec 16, 2017 13:59:49 GMT
There are quite a few good ones to know:
KEF
SME
IMF
TDL
B&W
B&O
Spendor
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 14:03:47 GMT
Another very apt one UC
UBER-COCK = Trump
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Post by Slinger on Dec 16, 2017 14:06:39 GMT
I wonder how many people would still be as impressed with LG as a 'top' brand-name if they knew it stood for Lucky Goldstar.  IMF, Martin? I knew it stood for Impossible Missions Force but I didn't realise it had anything to do with speakers.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 14:30:26 GMT
There are quite a few good ones to know: KEF SME IMF TDL B&W B&O Spendor In case anyone's wondering: Kent engineering and Foundry Scale Model Engineering IRving M fried Transducer Developments Ltd Bowers and Wilkins Bang and Olufsen Spencer and Dorothy what about DCM? Answers on. A postcard  |
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Post by dsjr on Dec 16, 2017 14:47:39 GMT
I. M. Freid was IMF I recall. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_M._FriedI believe that TDL originally started making drivers for IMF (I think there's a link to the UK Elac company making speaker drivers but don't remember the full story) and when IMF went tits-up, TDL designed boxes to put their drivers in and I gather that John Wright, who'd previously run IMF before escaping to develop one of the surround sound ideas, came back to head up the new company... |
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Post by dsjr on Dec 16, 2017 14:51:04 GMT
To go with Spendor, Harbeth was Dudley HARwood and wife ElizaBETH I believe. Where Dorothy Hughes was always answering the phone whenever I phoned Spendor (what a lovely friendly and helpful company they were in the 70's), I think Harbeth started as a discrete one-man-band operation - and probably still is judging by the hugely self-satisfied ego running it today dominating the hard working people beavering away behind and below him, but less about that the better...
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Post by MartinT on Dec 16, 2017 14:52:41 GMT
I thought SME was Scale Model Equipment?
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Post by dsjr on Dec 16, 2017 14:54:29 GMT
SME - tonearms were a very tiny part of what they did I understand...
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Post by MartinT on Dec 16, 2017 15:03:00 GMT
Lucky Goldstar. I was telling someone at work that and they flat didn't believe me, thinking it was their more recent slogan Life's Good. |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 16, 2017 15:04:29 GMT
Scale Model Equipment Company founded by Mr. Alastair Robertson-Aikman. Source |
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 16, 2017 15:20:43 GMT
In the early days arms were no part of what they did!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 18:28:23 GMT
I've got a sudden burning desire to know what the 'A' and the 'R' in A&R Cambridge/ARCAM stood/stands for. Does anyone know? ARCAM was only a shortened marketing brand name, the trade name was always A&R Cambridge Ltd. Here is one of the ARCAM Milk Floats. |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 16, 2017 20:18:22 GMT
Fantastic!
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