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Completed Program-Sunday, October 25, 2009 "Get Better Sound" - presented by author Jim SmithMembers and guests gathered to met the author of the best selling "Get Better Sound" book. Jim actively demonstrated with a spectrum analyser and discussions how to achieve the best sound from an affordable audio system, with initial set-up and positioning of the loudspeakers most critical. He also exploded common held "myths" of speaker set-up in the average listening room, all quite enlightening...Sales of autographed copies of the Get Better Sound book were available to attendees at 33% discount. Thanks Jim... This was a "triple whammy" program featuring not only Jim but two other presenters as well. Dr. Tommy J Anderson of ACA Recordings presented present a primer on the pros, cons and myths of HD Radio including both Broadcast and On-Line channels...and Dr. Phil Muse our in-house classical music reviewer played selections from his most recently reviewed CD's. These will be available for Raffle at a future meeting... To quote a review of Jim Smith's book all the way from Italy; "Jim Smith is a well respected "pro" in the US high-end market hence US readers might not need an introduction. For us EU readers let me just say that Jim Smith's CV is quite long and impressive. He started in the early Seventies, working as customer service manager (and even in the sales & marketing department) at Audio Research Corporation (ARC). At that time he wrote the installation manuals for the Tympani 1D Magneplanar loudspeakers. Then he moved to Magnepan, for which he wrote the manuals for various Magneplanar models (MG1's and MG2's, for example). In 1979 he opened his own high-end shop, Audition, in Birmingham, Alabama. The shop soon became - for the high-end niche - one of the top-10 HiFi stores nationwide. In the meanwhile he got involved in producing live music recordings of excellent quality. In 1993, unhappy of what the high-end scene was becoming, he left the audio industry. In 1999 he returned as the US distributor of Avantgarde loudspeakers. Despite the fact horns weren't much popular among high-enders, he won seven "Best Sound of the Show" awards in five years, thanks to his accurate demos of Avantgarde speakers". © This in-turn led to a book with 202 tips in almost
300 pages, with very clear and nice drawings and set-up schemes. www.tnt-audio.com/books/get_better_sound_e.html Location: Virtual Properties Realty office - 6650 Sugarloaf Parkway, Suite 700, Duluth, GA 30097. North Gwinnett County.View/Print expanded directions Completed Special Field Trip.. Saturday, September 26, 2009 - 2 - 5 PM Members and special guests (from the Southeast Antique Radio Society) were treated to a field trip and tour of vintage Radio, Hi-Fi, Loudspeakers, Broadcast Studio, Vacuum Tubes, Tape, LP, Ham Gear, Parts, Rare Sinage, Broadcast Studio Gear, and Historical Artifacts. Hosted by nationally known private collector Imre Vanyl. Some of the collection including R-to-R tape was in operation and was simply stunning. Excellent cookout refreshments were provided by our gracious host - Pix Wall of Vintage Gear Pix Vintage RCA Receiver Location: Defoor Ave. NW Atlanta. Completed program - Sunday, September 13, 2009 Re-visit to Meridian America (Austell, Ga. Hq.). We were invited back after our spring visit to and enjoy the stunning 10 megapixel 810 HD Video Projector. And indeed we were not disappointed!!! We also revisited the equally stunning Sooloos digital music server, playback and archive system . Other top-flight Meridian A/V systems were also auditioned. Sunday - August 16, 2009 - 2 - 5 PM Featuring a fantastic jazz classics program and award winning radio host "H. Johnson" heard Saturday evenings on WABE FM 90.1, 9 PM to 2 AM. "H" discussed and presented live performance video clips (via a large format projection system) of notable Jazz greats such as Eroll Garner, Milt Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Hurt, Maynard Ferguson and others... We spun some definitive Jazz CD and LP recordings via a first rate audio system... Our guest in brief; H. Johnson: "Veteran jazz host, raconteur, and savvy connoisseur of classic jazz recordings, the venerable and affable H. Johnson"... "H" Johnson photo - Group Pix - Meeting minutes by Tom Horner: Minutes Doc, On the web: WABE Jazz classics We also raffled a pair of top performing Usher V-601 loudspeakers generously donated by Gateway Audio of Tucker, Ga. which was won by member John Atwood. We'll also raffled numerous CD's, Contact Cleaning kits, Solder Buddy kits and other goodies... Playback gear was by; Audio Research LS 26 & PH-5 Pre, Benchmark D/A, Oppo universal CD, Aragon 8008 B-B Balanced, Audioquest "Colorado" battery bias balanced and SE interconnects, Kimber Select, Soundstrings, Project LP, Ortophon, and Usher among others... Meeting was hosted by John Morrison - N. Gwinnett Co. off I-85N - Virtual Properties Realty Office training room. For more AVCOA information; Contact John Morrison at jhm3@bellsouth.net or Chuck Bruce at 770-493-7105 & chucksaudio@mindspring.com
Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2 to 5 p.m. Program Headphone and Desktop, Computer Audio Showcase and demonstration. Featured special guest presenter; Tyll Hertsens President and Founder of HeadRoom, Inc. of Bozeman MT. 8 to 10 area hobbyists displayed their factory and DYI 'Headphone" gear and systems. All top performing and each participant made a mini-presentation of their set-up. Tyll also made an interesting and informative general presentation wth Q & A. See notes below. A fund raising Raffle of headphone gear and CD's was conducted which included; Tyll donated new in the box: A Micro Amp with DAC and BitHead and for top flight headphone listening... Won respectively by Mark Clay and Jimmy Wiggins. Phil Muse, Tommy J. Anderson and Chuck Bruce also donated a table full of CDs. Congrats to all the winners!!! Web Link HeadRoom, Inc. Sunday July 12, 2009 - 4PM - Members Picnic and Home Theater / A-V presentation with bonus "Film Noir" presentation by Dr. Phil Muse. A free Raffle of numerous VHS and DVD films Noir was also conducted, donations compliments of Phil Muse. Pot Luck cook-out and Picnic plus bonus demonstration of Lee's home built/engineered large scale Home Theater and 7.1 surround Audio System hosted by member Lee Tingler - Flowery Branch, Ga. Featuring: a 120"+ projection screen system (Panasonic projector) w/B & K electronics and Klipsch loudspeakers w/18" subwoofer. This was a member focused activity featuring a bonus presentation of
historic Film Noir by Music Reviewer and Cinema history authority Dr. Phil Muse. Spouses and
significant others were welcomed the gathering and provided many of
the home-cooked eats with chef Chuck at the grill turning out
delicious burgers and dogs.... Many thanks to lee for
hosting... #### |
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