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Meeting
Notice for September 2019
Date: Sunday, Sep
22, 2019 @ 6:00 PM
Place: Boston University, Life Science
& Engineering Bldg, 24 Cummington Mall,
1st Floor, Conference Room 103, Boston, MA
02215
Guest: Alvin Foster and Nick Noiseux
Topic: BAS &
Local Musical Menus, & Meeting Summary
Writers Wanted
This is a hands-on meeting
of members to discuss including more music
in our pursuit of hi-fi excellence. Most of
our past meetings are geared to analyzing
audio equipment, and understanding the electronics
behind the products.
Because Boston has many
great music venues, why not include meetings
at selected halls preceded with a lecture
on the hall's acoustics and the history of
the upcoming music? Of course, Jordan, and
Worcester halls come to mind but small, lesser
known halls would be included.
Is there a way to get
group discounts at selected halls and to prearrange
a room for the acoustical lecture.? Will parking
be a problem?
The second agenda item
will include catching up on writeups of previous
meetings for the newsletter. The BAS now pays
meeting summary writers $150. Over the years,
we have a backlog of unreported meetings.
It’s easy, the entire meeting can be
supplied on a CD. How can we get more writer
participation?
There will be refreshments
at 5:30
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Directions: Note
that parking is no longer allowed in
the block in front of our meeting place
(temp parking for unloading/loading
is OK). There is a gap in the BU buildings
on Commonwealth Ave. so you can walk
through directly to the meeting location.
At Boston University,
Cummington St. (Mall) is an east-west
street just south of Commonwealth Ave.
It is one-way going west. From Storrow
Drive going east, take the first BU
exit. At the stop sign turn right on
Commonwealth Ave (a left is not permitted).
Bear left and at the 3rd light take
a u-turn, go half a mile and turn right
on Blandford St.(Mall) (at a traffic
light) and turn right on Cummington
St. (Mall) The entrance is on your left,
number 24.
From Commonwealth
Ave going west, after Kenmore Square,
after the tracks come up out of the
tunnel, there is a traffic light at
Blandford. You should turn left on Blandford,
but no left is permitted. Instead turn
right and make a U-turn. Continue on
Blandford and turn right on Cummington
St. The entrance is on your left, number
24.
MBTA Green line
- exit at Kenmore Square or the next
stop, Blandford St. & Commonwealth
Ave. Walk a short distance and make
a left turn onto Blandford Mall and
then a right onto Cummington Mall.
Parking is free
on Sundays and available on Commonwealth
Ave. and Beacon St. (take a hard right
at Kendall Square and park on the bridge
and take the stairs down) and Bay State
Rd (parallel to Commonwealth Ave next
to the river)
-or-
Use your GPS (!)
—
Webmaster's note: Google maps and Apple
maps show them as Blandford Mall
and Cummington Mall. Bing maps
shows them as Blandford Street
and Cummington Street. YMMV.
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The
BAS Message
September 2019 |
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1. In 2018
sales of classical music increased faster
than any other type of music. Streaming rose
42 per cent. CDs are still 60 per cent of
the market and sales rose by 6.9%.
2. A couple
months ago I wrote about great conductors,
giving Willem Mengelberg as an example. I
found a link which has all his recorded legacy
available for listening: www.willemmengelberg.nl/?q=discografie
Here it is the message,
repeated.
I am a fan of the art
of conducting and great conductors. Something
is lost with today’s note-perfect bland
performances. An example from the past is
Willem Mengelberg who conducted the Concertgebouw
Orchestra of Amsterdam for 50 years. His use
of rubato (agogics) is unique and sometimes
jaw-dropping.
Here is a historic example
from Tahra Records TAH 391, last mvt Beethoven
3rd, live from 1942: dbsystemsaudio.com/meng.mp3.
His recorded legacy for
listening is here:
www.willemmengelberg.nl/?q=discografie
There is a new biography
by Frits Zwart (The last one was in 1930!).
email me here
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| Local
Area Audio News |
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Therapeutics in Woburn announces a drug
trial for Hearing Restoration |
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| Below,
other meetings and notices which may be of interest
to BAS members |
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| BAS
MICROPHONE CLINIC REPORT ! |
| In September 2009
the B A S held a microphone clinic, testing 37 different
microphone models. The ambitious nature of the clinic
effort, the extent of data collection, the number
of individuals involved in microphone testing and
in writing various sections of the report, and the
complexity in determining how to construct the clinic
report and make it available to members resulted it
not being published until now. The dataset is extensive.
Representative samples were
included in the abbreviated report in "The
B A S Speaker"
(Fall 2015; v37n3)
Go to the MICROPHONE
CLINIC PAGE for more...
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When collecting
and plotting "noisy" data
it is often useful to have Microsoft
Excel plot a Trend Line through it.
If that data is to be used for
further work, it may be necessary to
have an X-Y table of the Trend Line.
That is not easy to get and this paper
will show how to do it.
Joseph DeMarinis
has a new article here: Extracting
Numerical Data from an Excel Trend Line
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Foster's
Test Bench !
by Alvin Foster ! Click
the logo: —> |
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The rapidly-becoming-famous
BAS Headphone Test Article is
now available in the BASS VOLUME
25, ISSUE 4, on Page 17, available
HERE
PDF 3mb |
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Visit
our PODCAST PAGE
for:
The LIVE video podcast of our meetings,
Archived video of past meetings (only
one so far!),
and Audio Podcast interviews by Alvin
Foster |
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There is a supplemental
and further explanation addendum paper to the
E. Brad Meyer / David Moran paper published
in the September, 2007 issue of the AES
Journal. That page, which documents
the experimental protocol and audio systems/source
material is here:
www.bostonaudiosociety.org/explanation.htm
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| There
is a Power Point Presentation of the lecture
given by Dr. Barry Blesser at the March 2007
Meeting. The Meeting page synopsis is HERE;
the Power Point Presentation (as a web page)
is HERE |
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Some earlier
BASS issues, previously available only
directly by mail, are now available online,
on the BAS SPEAKER page, HERE
Show your
appreciation for the immense amount of dedicated
work that went into both the original writing,
gathering, editing and printing, PLUS
the more recent scanning and conversion to
PDF format, by joining the Society, HERE
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There is a posting of an ABX article, The
Digital Challenge by Stanley P. Lipshitz HERE
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