If you are reading this page to find out more about Vancouver Audio Speaker Clinic, and the way we do business, you might enjoy our philosophy page. We also have a history page, illustrating that unfashionable clothes and hairstyles for technicians are not a new phenomena.

David Lee, Proprietor, Visionary and Mystic

When David heard that computers would soon create a "paperless society" he promptly abandoned his career in the printing industry, mortgaged his home, and bought Vancouver Audio Clinic. His business acumen and managerial skills have perfectly qualified him to be a speaker repair technician. Thirty-eight years spent repairing every loudspeaker imaginable, has given him an encyclopedic knowledge, thousands of delighted customers, a long series of $500 cars, and a permanent stoop. Oddly, even after more than 50,000 speaker repairs, David still genuinely enjoys his work, and, rather more disturbingly, country and western music. David can be reached at vasc@shaw.ca but if you need answers, the phone is a lot quicker.

Howard Doctor, Technician and aspiring Boulevardier

In 1962, he received 'The Young Scientists Approach to Magnetism' as a prize for academic progress, and it was this slim, innocuous volume that started him on his road to poverty and obscurity. Built his first speaker at age 14. Built his first decent-sounding speaker at age 16. He learned to play bass guitar, but abandoned it at the insistence of family, friends and a mob of torch-carrying neighbours. His speakers turned out well, but his woodworking skills were actually called 'a danger to life and property'. He spent the next 40 years designing and building driver units and speaker systems, and now consults for manufacturers, on driver design and materials. Having authored over 150 articles on audio, as well as guidebooks on loudspeaker adhesives (pdf download link) and voice coils, he drinks cider to forget his brief career refining nickel to make Canadian coins. He enjoys fine coffee, but is always mysteriously absent when it needs to be made, and still treasures the little book that started it all.

Steven Robson, Staff Curmudgeon

Monumentally bitter at some long-forgotten insult to his sheep-stealing relatives, Steve studied Shoji screen making, special effects, automation and robotics technologies before beginning his career in speaker reconing. Now he spends every waking moment planning his escape from it. He has a large filing cabinet filled with fully researched yet slightly bizarre holidays, and solitary adventures which he plans to explore in his retirement years. Steve enjoys bad humour and good wine, in infinitely variable proportions, as long as the result leaves him happy. He is the author of a remarkable book explaining the origins and uses of Stonehenge, loves kayaking, and is a recovering bass-guitarist.

Rhett Haarland, A job description escapes me

Joined the company in 2005, performing our parts preparation and support tasks. As a bicycle-riding, voracious carnivore, he is a living advertisement for public transit and vegetarianism. Rhett's organizing efforts in our storage rooms have created a dramatic (and slightly frightening) new art form, involving implausibly tall stacks of empty speaker frames, evoking memories of the Tower of Pisa.

If you have read this far, you should probably get a little fresh air, then try our philosophy and historypages. If you have actually enjoyed reading this, please consider professional counseling. Its worth every penny.