Allan Black
Active member
It looks like we're living at a time where some of the pioneers of everyday things we take for granted are passing.
I've got to say when you read their stories most of them would rise to the heights of any field they worked in and Edgar Villchur certainly joins that esteemed group ....
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/business/edgar-m-villchur-hi-fi-innovator-dies-at-94.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Villchur
And Oct 17 was the day my three week old great grandson was diagnosed as profoundly deaf, that means no hearing at all. My sister and his family are coming to grips with the sad news and as his Uncle with 50yrs in the sound recording biz I'm just devastated.
Coincidently Edgar Villchur worked in the field of hearing research and developed the modern hearing aid and I'm doing a job about 2 blocks away from the New South Wales Deaf Institute for Children.
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I've got to say when you read their stories most of them would rise to the heights of any field they worked in and Edgar Villchur certainly joins that esteemed group ....
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/business/edgar-m-villchur-hi-fi-innovator-dies-at-94.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Villchur
And Oct 17 was the day my three week old great grandson was diagnosed as profoundly deaf, that means no hearing at all. My sister and his family are coming to grips with the sad news and as his Uncle with 50yrs in the sound recording biz I'm just devastated.
Coincidently Edgar Villchur worked in the field of hearing research and developed the modern hearing aid and I'm doing a job about 2 blocks away from the New South Wales Deaf Institute for Children.
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