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Upcoming Meetings and Special Activities 2012 Most of our monthly meetings are conducted at 2 - 5 PM on the second or third Sundays. See this site for latest information, Dates, Times and Location. Or contact AVCOA Pres., John Morrison - 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net We're about spreading the good word about fine audio, video and music, sharing this most wonderful experience of creativity, art and science managed and operated by an unpaid staff. We not only feature some of the latest A-V products available, we also conduct loudspeaker, amplifier and cable/accessory design, build and evaluation projects. We also conduct computer audio/music and desktop/headphone audition and presentation activities. We have recently formed a PC/Computer Music Panel that will investigate and evaluate various approaches to achieving the best sound from this fast growing branch of audio. It's here folks and here to stay and sounding remarkably good. We're not talking MP3 here, but hi-rez CD quality and better music files and playback!AVCOA Meeting Site Appreciation Notice - Virtual Properties Realty supports the Audio Video Club of Atlanta through the free use of their facilities for some of our meetings. Please support them for your Real Estate needs in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Click Here to find out more. Thank You Virtual Properties! The AVCOA is a registered non-profit Corporation in the State of Georgia. See many recently posted Members For Sale Items, don't miss this opportunity to purchase top-flight audio gear at attractive prices Next programs planned for 2012 June - Date/Loc TBA - Silent Auction of Members Audio Gear. Always lots of fun and time to pick-up a good deal of pre-owned working gear. More info to follow soon... July - Date/Loc TBA- Possible Part-II of Jim Smiths's famous "Get Better Sound seminar" - Stay tuned for details.Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 3 - 7 PM, Southern BBQ and Audio Showcase hosted by Avatar Acoustics, Fayetteville Ga. - Return visit-III. This will be fun and lots of great gear and music. See the Avatar product line including:Brands showcased in multiple showrooms will be; AMR, Dr. Feickert Analog/LP, Karan, Rosso Fiorentino, Monk Audio and other products/accessories. Members and Guests must RSVP to John Morrison, 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net, www.avataracoustics.com For Fall 2012 - Date TBA - DYI Audio Showcase of member's home built, modified electronics, speakers, accessories, coordinated by premiere builder Ken Yeager and others. Mark your calendars, bring a friend and stay tuned for Time, Location and other details for these fun and interesting programs. For further questions, contact: John Morrison - C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net The Emotiva Audio New Products program is being rescheduled... Completed- May 20, 2012 Live Streaming and Computer Audio 2 - 5 PM Meeting Minutes and Notes to Follow Soon Streaming and Computer Audio presented by club member Ken Green and other members. We also auditioned the new and highly rated Nola Contender floor standing 3-way tower loudspeaker. Location: Virtual Properties Realty Training Room - 6650 Sugarloaf Pkwy., Unit 700, Duluth, Ga., 30097. Exit 108 off I-85N, proceed West. 1 mile, near Gwinnett Co. Civic Center. For further questions, contact: John Morrison - C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Excellent Completed Meeting! Sunday, April 29, 2012 - Peachtree Audio 2 - 5 PM Atlanta's own Peachtree Audio Co-founder David Solomon showcased several products from their impressive line of desktop tube/hybrid electronics, Dac's, and computer audio enabled gear. We also hosted special guest and living-legend H. Johnson WABE FM 90.1 Jazz Program Host. "H" returned for his 3rd. appearance, sharing fun and interesting stories of the Jazz world, artists and playing fave tunes and Videos. Exciting Raffle - Peachtree donated their latest "Dac-IT" ESS Sabre DAC with Remote featuring 24/96 USB, 24/192 SPDIP a terrific prize. We also had a nice stack of CD's donated by Phil Muse. Location: Virtual Properties Realty Training Room - 6650 Sugarloaf Pkwy., Unit 700, Duluth, Ga., 30097. Exit 108 off I-85N, proceed West. 1 mile, near Gwinnett Co. Civic Center... For further questions, contact Club President: John Morrison C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Completed Program - Truly Excellent, lots of fun and good music playback Completed Sunday March 25 MPower AV Shop Showcase - Alpharetta, GA Our hosts Dave Striplin and Joe Saxon showcased the latest and most cost effective products from Dali and Definitive Technology Loudspeakers, Rega, NAD w/USB playback and other top brands. Both 2 channel and Home Theater Surround A/V were demonstrated, including LP playback. Both compact and full scale systems were demonstrated. Discounts were offered to club members who attended and remain in effect until Friday, March 30. We also demonstrated PC/Computer Audio and "Thumb drive" music files We also auditioned the club's latest hi-rez test tracks and give an interim report on our progress with computer music methodologies and evaluations.... For the Raffle, our hosts donated a new in the box NAD Wireless Bluetooth DAC-1, just perfect for wireless networked computer music and Phil Muse is donated a nice stack of recent release Classical and Jazz CD's . Many thanks to our generous hosts and donors... We had a terrific turnout with several new members joining in... Refreshments were provided by Dennis and Jennifer Juranek. Many thanks to all who made this fun gathering possible. Location: 6225 Shiloh Rd., Suite E, Alpharetta, Ga. 30005. Take GA 400 North, Exit 12 E, Right on McFarland Rd., 1/2 mi. to Shiloh Rd. on the Left, turn Left, then 1.25 mi to 6225 on office park Bldg., on Right.For further questions, contact Club President: John Morrison - C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Completed Program Sunday - February 19, 2012 2 - 5 PM Club Speaker Project - Woofer(s) Launch + Music Listening Pgm. featuring CD, SACD, PCM up to 24/192, Computer Music File Sources With great success we launched the club designed and built 9.5" ported sub-woofer's and paired them with the specially matched 2-way stand-mount speakers, also club designed and built that we had launched some months earlier. We also employed a club designed and built electronic crossover that produced a truly seamless integration of all the drivers. It appeared that the large crowd was in near full agreement that the performance was first rate and greater than expected, all while the building remained standing! Much to the relief of Virtual Properties, our host meeting site. We also sourced the speakers with club member designed and built 25 wpc mono tube amps for the satellites and featured club designed cables and other goodies. Special thanks to our design/build team; Sam Papadas, Dennis Juranek and Ed Stiles and others. Plenty of time was allocated for member fave recordings, hard media and computer music files. And of course a OPPO 95 player/processor was a top performer. We played a great variety of music including Classical, Opera, Jazz, Rock to mention a few... We welcomed several guests, new members and accepted several renewals at the new annual rate of $40. We're on a roll boys and girls, growing and havin' lots of fun!!! We also re-elected Dennis Juranek as VP , Chuck Bruce as VP of Industry Relations and Tom Horner as Secretary.Location: Virtual Properties Realty Training Room - 6650 Sugarloaf Pkwy., Unit 700, Duluth, Ga., 30097. Exit 108 off I-85N, proceed West. 1 mile, near Gwinnett Co. Civic Center... For further questions, contact Club President: John Morrison - C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Sunday January 22, 2012 Excellent completed program! Audio Mercury Showcase Featuring: Audio Electronics, Loudspeakers, Cables, Portable Audio and Room Treatments from Audio Mercury... Multiple audio systems were demonstrated 2 different loudspeakers, integrated tube amplifiers, cables and accessories. You don't want to miss this comprehensive program of fine audio from our very own Kanda and Andy Xie... Audio Mercury Discounts offered...
Audio Mercury We conducted a fun raffle which included a very fine TSE TS-1J Headphone Amplifier donated by Audio Mercury along with a set of high-end IEMs (In Ear Monitors) from the online store Miccastore.com. We also had some new CD's donated by Dr. Phil, Ray Kimber, Legacy Audio, Chuck and others. Many thanks to all the donors!!! Other programs in the works for 2012 March 2012 - Replacement Program in works - The Emotiva Audio New Products program is being rescheduled... April 29, 2012 - Peachtree Audio and their impressive line of desktop tube/hybrid electronics, Dac's, computer audio enabled gear. May 2012 - Streaming and Computer Audio presented by club member Ken Green and other members, also audition of the new Nola Contender floor standing 3-way loudspeaker. June 2012 - DYI Audio Showcase of member's home built, modified electronics, speakers, accessories, coordinated by premiere builder Ken Yeager. July 2012 - Fun BBQ and Audio Showcase hosted by Avatar Acoustics - Return visit-III. Mark your calendars, bring a friend and stay tuned for Time, Location and other details for these fun and interesting programs. For further questions, contact: John Morrison - C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Completed Pgm., - Sunday, December 11, 2011 1 - 6 PM Terrific Christmas/ Hanukkah Party and Pot-Luck Dinner for Members and Special GuestsWe had a good turnout of members, spouses and guests, lots of good eats and enjoyed a screening of the latest Polar Express animation film on Blu-Ray in Lee Tingler's custom Home Theater (130" screen). All boosted by tasty fresh and hot pop-corn and other goodies... The club provided Smoked Turkey, Spiral Cut Ham, Condiments, Soft Drinks. Allot of good fellowship was enjoyed all around... Hosted by Lee Tingler, Flowery Branch, Ga, North Metro Atlanta. Contact Lee if you have questions about how he assembled the components of his fine Home Theater, seating, artwork, decorations and other embellishments. - 770-476-5337 Sunday - October 23, 2011 WOW! What a terrific Completed program! We presented a program of Desktop, Mobile, PC, Tablet, Headphone, Streaming Music Technologies. We conducted both formal and informal presentations including addressing "Mobile Audio Today". Free admission and live exhibit tables were provided for numerous exhibitors. Each exhibitor was allocated a few minutes to describe and demo their rigs. Time was set-aside for "Hands-on, Heads-on" further listening at the tables with plenty of Q & A time. The good size crowd came away knowing allot more than when we arrived about this fast growing sector of audio. It is the big time future of compact and portable audio for all ages. The Exciting Big Raffle Was A Grand Success!!! We had several wonderful donated raffle prizes such as a hand held Rx M2 audio amp and Audio Line Out interface/connector from ALO Audio, a HQ USB cable for PC audio from WyWires, a stack of CD/SACD's from Ray Kimber and Sennheiser HD280PRO and Beyer DT770PRO-80 STU Headphones compliments of the Guitar Center and other goodies such as Etymotic ER4P and HF3 IEM's. Many thanks to all these generous donors, moving the enjoyment of portable and headphone audio forward!!! Program Manager was Mike Lyles as was Horton McCurdy: smichael.lyles@gmail.com Sunday, September 25, 2011 2 - 5 PM Excellent Completed Program... Emotiva Audio and their Mobile Lounge Showcase Emotiva of Franklin TN presented many examples of their line of US designed Audio, Video, Loudspeakers, acclaimed D-to-A gear, Cables and accessories. Featured were both 2-channel stereo demonstrations and new product releases, plus we enjoyed Emotiva's mobile A-V Home Theater Lounge. Many free prizes including their own Nashville produced CD were given away to the large appreciative crowd. Web discounts are also offered to AVCOA members until October 9. Many thanks Emotiva!!! Emotiva representatives Vincent Chin, Matt Wall and Eddie Clark were first rate presenters and are most appreciated. Raffle Prize Awarded! Emotiva donated the famed XDA-1 Differential Reference™ balanced 24Bit/192kHz DAC/Digital Preamp and was won by member Ed Stiles. We also offered a big selection of CD's donated by Phil Muse. All these items pleased the winners. www.emotiva.com Check out Emofest 2011, their annual fest in Franklin TN, including facility tours, BBQ and live music held during Labor Day weekend. For Sept 25, please RSVP to John Morrison - C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.netExpected Location: Virtual Properties Realty Training Room - 6650 Sugarloaf Pkwy., Unit 700, Duluth, Ga., 30097. Exit 108 off I-85N, proceed West. 1 mile, near Gwinnett Co. Civic Center. Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 1:30 - 6 PM Annual Members Pot Luck Picnic Once again Tom and Dwana hosted a fine members picnic at their beautiful and welcoming lakeside home. Members, spouses and friends provided allot of good eats and copious amounts of liquid refreshments, soft and otherwise. Tom again provided expertly grilled burgers, dogs and homemade chili. Their residence is filled with multiple Home Theater(s) and Stereo systems that we all enjoyed. Many thanks to all, especially to Tom and Dwana!!! Sunday, July 17 - 2 - 5 PM Completed Meeting Wagner Technology of Alpharetta Ga. Many thanks to owner/operators Drew, Carla Bardagly and staff for hosting such a fine and fun showcase of top performing A/V systems + tasty refreshments to round out a fine afternoon... Wagner Technology of Alpharetta Ga. hosted our July meeting where the finest and latest in Home Theater projection video systems from Wolf and Epson were showcased. The latest Wolf LED projector provided stunning images on the 150" screen that was as good as it gets. The Epson 9700 was also most impressive as well and quite cost effective at $3400 including spare lamp and generous warranty. Other fine products from McIntosh, Integra, Sony, Peachtree Audio, REL, Vienna Acoustics and others were showcased along with electrically operated custom order/install drapes and blinds. Sonus Faber will soon join the lineup. All was exhibited in attractively finished and furnished multiple showroons. McIntosh based 2 channel Stereo systems were also demonstrated. Guests were welcome More activities are planned by Wagner and we'll be invited! Stayed tuned for more announcements! Directions: Wagner Technology Showroom Call ahead for appointments. WagnerTechnology - Owner/operator Drew Bardagly - 2001 Westside Pkwy, Suite 120, Alpharetta, Ga., 30004. Exit 11 off GA 400-N. Advance appointments - 404-467-0066. Please RSVP to John Morrison - C: 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Avatar Acoustics Completed Program Sunday July 3 we were hosted at the beautiful home of Darren and Bonnie Censullo of Fayetteville, Ga. They are owners of Avatar Acoustics and hosted a fine BBQ and audition of their latest imported AMR electronics from England and other terrific high-end audio products. This was our June special "activity" held in early July. www.avataracoustics.comMany thanks to our hosts and especially their fun and engaged brother and sister kids. They're learning fine audio from the ground up and doing an excellent job. Exciting to see budding young audiophiles become engaged in the business and enjoyment thereof.... Minutes from this especially fun Audio & BBQ activity At a future date we plan to feature Indy Audio Labs. The "Indy" folks re-launching the famed Aragon and Acurus solid-state Preamp and power amps. We also hope to feature Emotiva Audio Corp., and Cary Audio. We're also proposing a desktop audio, "can heads" expo too. Stay tuned... For further information, please contact John Morrison, 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Excellent completed program... Sunday, M ay 22, 20112 - 5 PM Part two of the club speaker build project audition and club designed and constructed loudspeaker cables with Computer Music Playback + Raffle of quality classical CD's More complete Meeting notes will be posted Soon
Contact John Morrison, 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Location: Virtual Properties Realty Training Room - 6650 Sugarloaf Pkwy., Unit 700, Duluth, Ga., 30097. Exit 108 off I-85N, proceed West. 1 mile, near Gwinnett Co. Civic Center. Directions: 6650 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 700, Duluth, GA 30097 Taking exit 108 off I-85 N, proceed West on Sugarloaf, crossing Satellite Blvd., past Gwinnett Arena on left, then crossing Meadow Church Rd., Take next Left onto Premiere Pkwy, then immediate Left across the yellow lines into first driveway past the divider. Make immediate Right and then immediate Left. Go to end of brick building, 6650, Suite 700. Sign on door says Georgia Land & Commercial. If lost call:770-330-3919 AXPONA/Stereophile Audio Show Successfully Completed and lot's of fun!!! April 14-17, 2011 Downtown Atl., Sheraton Hotel at 165 Courtland St., 30303 On the web: www.axpona.com Over 200 exhibitors on three floors offered audio and music fans much of the finest stereo gear available playing in numerous active exhibits. Attendees also benefitted from a retail marketplace to expand their CD and LP record collections, cables and accessories. AXPONA served as our April Meeting LP turntable set-up, loudspeaker measurements, room treatment and other seminars were conducted. Live music events were also held daily, 10-to-6 and to 4 PM Sunday. Many Raffle prizes were also offered. AVCOA Club volunteers stepped-up to make this a successful show and we received many positive accolades for a job well done by the Press, Exhibitors and Attendees. We gained several new members and many more prospects. See these terrific reports from Stereophile, Enjoy The Music and The Vinyl Achronisthttp://www.enjoythemusic.com/axpona_2011/thursday/ http://thevinylanachronist.blogspot.com/2011/04/atlanta-audio-video-club-volunteers-at.html For more information about this event; 770-330-3919 or jhm3@bellsouth.net Completed Program... Sunday, March 13, 2011 Successful launch of the Marshall Leach Memorial "Club" loudspeaker Dave Snyder's Excellent Meeting Notes We featured the club's own designed and built 2-way stand mount dynamic driver loudspeaker. This premium parts yet affordable to home-build loudspeaker honors and adds to the fine design work of the late Dr. Marshall Leach, noted Ga. Tech EE professor. This speaker may be used when we have electronics at meetings yet no loudspeakers. Design highlights are; 1" Scanspeak silk dome ferro-fluid tweeter, 6.5" Scanspeak mid-woofer w/heavy voice-coil/basket structure. Front ported bass-reflex, L-R-C xover with premium (yet not over costly) parts all encased in a mid-size, heavy 3/4" MDF, internally braced cabinet ready to be finished. Material/parts costs are a bit over $500 for a pair that may be built with reasonable skill in a well equipped home woodshop. Design and assembly accomplished in less than a month with solid response down to 40Hz and beyond with sensitivity of appx. 87 db. A pair of 27 w triode configured tube amps powered the speakers to high listening levels in the large listening room (by designer/builder Sam Papadas) with good bass. Parts lists and design formulas were distributed to club members. Core team; Dennis Juranek, Sam Papadas, Ed Stiles, Paul Tarver, Oliver Endsley and others. Congrats to team. Attendees shared their fave CD's of all formats and USB ported music devices to give the new speakers a good workout. We also employed the top performing Marantz Reference integrated 90/140 solid-state amp, PM-15S2 to great effect, no stress or strain. Guests were welcome, light refreshments were provided. Gear featured - New OPPO BDP-93 Blu-Ray universal player, Cambridge Audio DACMagic, Benchmark DAC-1, and the versatile Logitech Squeezebox Touch. In addition we'll have the infamous ADCOM preamp designed by Nelson Pass, and tube amps designed/modified and built by Sam Papadas and Ed Stiles. To round out the amplification we'll have a Marantz Refrence Integrated amplifier and PS Audio Digital Link-II D/A. We will play all formats of CD, DVD-A, SACD and FLAC files, USB Flash Drive and SD cards. Completed Feb. Meeting... Sunday, February 20, 2011 - 2 - 5 PM MartinLogan Loudspeakers and "H. Johnson" JAZZ Radio Host Over 40 members and guests observed and heard the latest model $1995 Electrmotion ™ ESL loudspeaker from the veteran manufacturer noted for their famed electrostatic/hybrid creations, engineered right here in the USA for over 30 years. Other than CEDIA last fall in Atlanta, we were the first public group to see and hear this top performing floor standing loudspeaker, one offered at a very competitive price with 90 db sensitivity and reasonable impedance of 6 ohms, an easy drive for the 70 wpc EAR tube power amp applied in this demonstration.Listening impressions summary; General attendee comments were that M-L appears to have solved the Electrostatic panel and subwoofer integration challenge. Whereby the blend between the two different types of technology, materials, construction and electrical characteristics is basically seamless allowing listeners to enjoy the music and not be distracted by the speakers. Dave Snyder's excellent meeting minutes http://www.martinlogan.com/ We featured special guest presenter "H" Johnson Sat night radio host from WABE FM 90.1. "H" returned for part-II of his fun and informative expo on Jazz and Jazz history. Members and guests were invited to bring their fave Jazz CD or LP's to share with the attendees. Dr. Marshall Leach Tributes See our tributes about the recent passing of famed Ga. Tech Electrical Engineering Professor Dr. Marshall Leach. Known world-wide, he was beloved by many admirers, engineers students and non-students alike. Please scroll down further for former student Harold Taylor's personal tribute to Dr. Leach...
Classical and Jazz Recordings Reviews Also note that our Jazz reviewer Donald Smith has begun including HD Tracks Hi-Rez 24/96 downloads for all of us to enjoy. The first edition is the truly enjoyable and historic Ella and Louis, originally issued on Verve LP. Thanks Don and especially HD Tracks... See Michael Fremer Turntable set-up Seminar Notes below. Member's Audiophile Odyssey's - First Installment See updated For Sale Items - Items for Sale or Wanted The AXPONA High-End Audio Show is coming to Atlanta, April 14 -17, 2011. This Stereophile co-sponsored show is being held at the Sheraton Downtown Hotel. Exhibitors are already signing-up. Details to follow. Preliminaries on the WEB: www.axpona.com CEDIA returned to Atlanta, World Congress Ctr., Sept. 23 - 26th. 2010. This successful A/V trade-only show (Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association) attracted over 20,000 visitors and featured a lot of familiar audiophile manufacturers,(not just Home Theater and related offerings) such as; Totem, B & W, KEF, Martin-Logan, Marantz, MacIntosh, Harmon-Intl. and many others. It was a lot of fun and several of our members attended. Several new and former contacts were made for future AVCOA programs. We'll keep you posted about the benefits from these contacts. Stay tuned for a show report from the RMAF (Rocky Mtn. Audio Fest) held in Denver, Oct 15-17, 2010, several AVCOA members attended, a lot of great audio was seen and heard. Summary report from RMAF 2010 by Chuck Bruce Nov & Dec 2010 Minutes from these most fun meetings - Enjoy! Recent Completed Meeting. Lots of fun and a great turn out in the aftermath of the ice storm.. Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 2 PM Arte-Forma Electronics presented by Michael Gill We heard the latest top performing solid-state integrated amps and other products from this notable high-end line. We'll also featured the Eggleston Fontaine-II loudspeakers and as Part 2 included a special presentation by Lee Scoggins addressing computer music and internet downloads and playback. Stay tuned for meeting notes... December 2010 Completed - Annual Holiday Season - Members Pot-Luck Dish Fest Hosted by AVCOA Member Lee Tingler Flowery Branch, GA. Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 2 PM We enjoyed Lee's Stereo and Custom Home Theater Systems complete with fresh popcorn and member provided pot-luck dishes. The club provided excellent "Pulled" Chicken and Pork winter BBQ and tasty trimmings. We'll also enjoyed a special presentation of famous Detective Films excerpts humorously narrated by Dr. Phil Muse A FREE raffle of DVD Historic Detective Films and music CD's was conducted where every attendee won a prize. Thanks Dr. Phil and everyone else who provided good eats and fellowship... Happy Holidays to Everyone... Excellent completed program!!!.. Sunday, November 21, 2010 - 2 PM Vintage Audio - Rebuild/Refurbished & Kit Gear Showcase and Demonstration Members and special guest hobbyist displayed and demoed their working vintage gear, with stellar examples by Sherwood, Fisher, Dynaco, SAE, Heathkit, Pilot, LEEK, Leach, Layfette and many others including several vintage loudspeakers and turntables. Examples were either factory stock, mods or kits. The sound was terrific and makes one wonder how far we've come with all our fancy and expensive high-end gear!!! Each demonstrator had a designated table to demo and describe their gear, many of which have been lovingly maintained and restored. The full house attendees had a terrific time and we conducted a first rate raffle of CD's donated by Phil Muse and Chuck Bruce, and 2 heavy-duty detachable power cords donated by Soundstrings cables. Completed - Another excellent Program Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 2- 5 PM Marantz Reference Series Electronics Hosted by Home TheaterWorks Shop 8460 Holcomb Bridge Rd., Alpharetta, GA 30022, Suite 130. Phone: 770-643-7777 Representative Jim Ludoviconi, Product Manager, direct from Marantz was on hand to showcase their latest reference line products (hand constructed in special assembly cells) and discuss future products. Special discounts were offered to all attendees, members and guests just for The Audio Video Club of Atlanta. Loudspeakers were by FOCAL (Electra 1000 Be) and LSA and LP playback was also provided. (Includes summary notes from September mtg.) Special thanks to our hosts Seth and David Herold and to presenter, Jim Ludoviconi for hosting such a fine showcase. See HomeTheater works on the web: www.htwatlanta.com Email: sales@htwatlanta.com Completed Program - Sept. 12, 2010 An afternoon of great music listening and learning... 2 - 5 PM Audio designer Robert Cunningham of Cunningham Audio demonstrated his latest handcrafted tube preamps models P1 and P2 to great effect. We also enjoyed Canary CA303 (WE 300B tube based mono-blocks) and Bedini BA803 (solid-state) power amps and Jerry Robinson custom built three way tower loudspeakers. We also enjoyed the multi-format Lexicon CD player and PS Audio Digital Link outboard D/A processor. This was some of the best sound we have ever experiences in our meeting listening room. Quite an accomplishment since we have appreciated many different and effective systems in this room before. Congrats to Robert Cunningham and his good work to make this program possible. "It's all about the Music"... Also on the program was Dr. Tommy Joe Anderson of ACA Digital Recording. His informative yet tongue-in-cheek presentation on the history of classical music should convey extra college credit. Titled: Concert, Classical and serious Music Through The Ages - "A handy guide to make yourself more dangerous in discussing and listening to classical music", This presentation was a blast... Special Note! Attendees that signed-up recieved a 2 for 1 discount on tickets to famed Spivey Hall, Clayton Co., for all concerts between Sept. and thru Nov. 2010. We appreciate Dr. Tommy Joe for coordinating this opportunity to enjoy one of the finest concert halls on the planet. Plan ahead, select the concerts you would like to attend: Additional Bouus: Members were able to sign-up for CEDIA Expo Atlanta Guest Passes (Sept. 23-26) held at the GWCC downtown. A fun CD and LP Raffle was also conducted where everyone who purchased a ticket won a prize. CD's were donated by Phil Muse, Tommy Joe and LP's from the estate of the late David Monet. Another Excellent Completed Program!!! Sunday - July 11, 2010 - 2 PM Arte Forma and Dayens Electronics and Loudspeakers Presented by local dealer Michael Gill We enjoyed fine imported tube electronics not normally seen and heard in our area. Among the products featured were Dayens Audio 70 watt Ecstacy II integrated tube amp priced at $1600 and Dayens Tizo compact loudspeakers priced at $900 a pair. In addition, the Arte Forma KT88 45 watt tube amp was demonstrated to great effect. We'll also had a Project Debut-II turntable available so folks could spin their fave LP's, Jazz, Classical, Rock 'n Roll and otherwise. AVCOA member Don Smith also conducted his primer on Jazz history, recordings and performers, a truly excellent and informative presentation. Many thanks Don... Arte Forma from the 2009 Rocky Mountain Audio Show http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue45/rmaf2009.htm We enjoyed some excellent sound and lot's of fun with this one, plus a big CD Raffle, everyone who participated was a winner. Location: Virtual Properties Realty Training Room - Gwinnett Co near Gwin. Civic Ctr. 6650 Sugarloaf Pkwy., Unit 700, Duluth, Ga.,30097. Contact John Morrison, 770-330-3919 Completed Seminar - Grand Success... Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 7 PM Special Michael Fremer Guest Appearance We scheduled this special appearance and seminar by turntable set-up expert, audio writer/reviewer, humorist and industry trends observer; Michael Fremer of Stereophile Magazine. This well attended event was co-hosted by Audio Alternative high-end shop on Wednesday Evening, March 3 at 7 PM. Location: 895 Indian Trail Rd., Lilburn, GA. The large attending crowd really enjoyed this event. Link to Audio Alternative http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lilburn-GA/Audio-Alternative/270850370424?ref=mf And many thanks to all who made this possible, especially Stereophile magazine and Audio Alternative shop... Dr. Phil's tribute to the late Pianist Earl Wild - Tribute Select: Meeting and Activities Notes Sept-December 2009 Select: Special show report from CES 2010 by Chuck Bruce And don't forget the AXPONA Stereophile show in Jacksonville - March 5-7,†2010. www.axpona.com
Membership is $40 per year Join now and they're not due again until Jan 2011. Special installment payment plans are available, contact: Email John Morrison – President Meetings and special field trips are already on the schedule or planned. You can also contact Treasurer Paul Tarver (770-992-4910) or mailto:pmtarver@yahoo.com to verify your membership status. The AVCOA is going great guns, adding new members and having fun. Let's keep up the momentum into the new year. Member benefits include regular meetings, special field trips, dealer discounts and free For Sale postings on our website among other benefits... #### Have a happy days, great listening and cinema viewing...
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