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  • 8 months later...

I do not know when Gilbert Briggs staged the first live vs. recorded demo... . Raymond Cooke mentions in his final interview that the first demo was held in a university hall in Canada. Wikipedia states that the first Royal Festival Hall demo was held in 1954, but Raymond Cooke states that it was held in 1955 or 1956 but these figures may not be accurate as health of Cooke was not too good when interviewed and these things had happened quite long time ago.

http://www.gearplus.com.au/products/wharfedale/history/0-history-wharfedale.htm

http://www.kenkessler.com/hi-fi/raymond-cookes-final-interview/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Briggs

Best Regards

Kimmo

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A pair of Wharfedales... the story of Gilbert Briggs and his Loudspeakers is available from here http://www.impublications.com/content/a-pair-of-wharfedales

I bought the book and received it yesterday. Chapter 11 (pages 253-292) covers quite many aspects of Concert Hall Lecture-Demonstrations. Briggs has sometimes been claimed to be first one to use live to recorded sound demonstrations. Actually the earliest one that Briggs recalled was of Paul Voigt demonstrating his "Tractrix" horn with poetry reading, going back to about 1933. Briggs also learned in 1938 that D.E.L. Shorter´s practice was to use speaker to actual voice comparison in the BBC.

Cecil Watts prepared live vs. recorded sound demo to Gilbert Briggs in 1949. Briggs listened to recordings of duets played by Cecil on piano and his wife, Agnes, on cello alternating with the real thing from adjoining room. Gilbert was said to be unable top tell the difference.

So... idea to use live vs. recorded sound demonstration was not new in mid 50´s, as it was used several times since 1918 in Edison Studios... But, it may be fair to say Gilbert Briggs was the first one to make these demonstrations on such large scale.

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Kimmo

PS "A pair of Wharfedales" is nice addition to library of anyone interested in audio

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