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The
April 2023 ZOOM ONLY Meeting
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Date: Sunday,
April 23, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT
Place: online
Zoom session only
Guest: Dr. Ken
Wacks, BAS Member, www.kenwacks.com
Topic: Reports
on the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, Las
Vegas, NV
CES©
is billed as the "Global Stage for Innovation."
CES maintains that it is the "...most
influential tech event in the world - the
proving ground for breakthrough technologies
and global innovators. The CES Las Vegas,
Nevada destination is where the world's biggest
brands do business and meet new partners,
and the sharpest innovators hit the stage.
Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology
Association CTA©, CES features every
aspect of the tech sector."
The first CES took
place in New York City in June 1967. Since
then, thousands of products are announced,
displayed, and demonstrated at the yearly
show. CES is open to companies in the consumer
electronics business, which are growing in
scope. For 2023, about 3200 exhibitors were
present for the in-person show.
Ken attended CES for
four days and accumulated a variety of material
to highlight new business areas exhibited
at CES. He will present slides and videos
covering products ranging from electric vehicles
and energy storage to farming, robots, a personal
air purifier, automobile innovations, plus
an assortment of audio/video equipment.
Hope to see you then.
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and this is your first time with Zoom, please
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THE
BAS MESSAGE
April 2023 |
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From Alan Southwick
I've been trying to
get things a bit cleaned up in my cellar and
discovered I've stored about 30-plus years
of AES Journal hardcopies dating from the
early '70's (Just under three 36" long
bookcase shelves worth). They are in good
shape and I was wondering if you or anyone
you know might be interested in them? Otherwise,
they may be relegated to a dumpster ( Does
anyone read hardcopy anymore???)!
Let me know, and we
can arrange delivery or pickup in April.
alan_southwick@yahoo.com
2. Not a Super Spreader
Research in the UK has
concluded that an American report on Covid
that led to the banning of choral singing
was flawed. The report in March 2020 said
that one infected singer was responsible for
the spread of Covid among choir members at
a rehearsal of the Skagit Valley Chorale—and
thus beyond—in Washington State, but
analysis of data now suggest that the disease
was already rife in the community.
BBC Music Magazine Ja2022
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Below,
other meetings and notices which
may be of interest to BAS members |
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JUST
RELEASED !
A fantastic historical video!
Ken Berger and Kenton Forsythe
are the founders of EAW (Eastern Acoustics Works)
and they discuss, with terrific overlaid graphics,
the history of, well, pretty much every audio thing
Boston from the early 70's.
18 minutes and right here: https://youtu.be/fPfQEK0b0mI
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A Boston issue - As MIX magazine
reports:
Sound
Museum owners cry foul as their tenants likely secure
new spaces without them
While the headline sounds
like someone has sour grapes, the complete story
of how the closure of this crucial Boston rehearsal
studio is being handled is far more nuanced and
complicated -- particularly since it brings up issues
of gentrification, government support of the arts,
non-profits' ethics and more. Full Story HERE
(WBUR-FM Boston (1/11/23)
And here's an update:
www.wbur.org/news/2023/01/25/charlestown-rehearsal-studios-musicians-boston
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MAHLER
3
In the recent
(April 2022) performance of Mahler’s Third
Symphony at Boston's Symphony Hall by Ben Zander
and his Boston Philharmonic, the recording was done
with the three main spaced omnis with two more farther
back. No accent mikes or chorus microphones were
used nor, it turns out, were they needed. Remarkably,
this produced a recording that is as close to the
Symphony Hall experience as may be possible.
The info is
here: www.bostonphil.org/concerts/2021-2022/bpo4-mahler3
Here is the
recording in its entirety as a single .WAV file;
44k / 16 bit; 1hr 47 min
Mahler
Sym 3 CD.wav 1.1GB
(For those of you with editing software note that
the .wav file HAS markers to denote the movements.)
Here is the
exact same Symphony 3 with the movements separated
as FLAC files, 48k / 24 bit as a ZIPped file:
Mahler
3 Zander as FLAC.zip 1GB
IF you'd like
further Gustav Mahler info... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler
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Shop
Talk
Shop Talk was
a WBUR program about Hi Fidelity, music, speakers,
tape recorders, etc. Enjoyed by many during the
1970s, the program's format was ‘talk’
and interviewing major audio luminaries. It was
a forerunner of the popular program Car Talk!
Peter Mitchell and Dr. Richard
Goldwater were the original hosts. They were later
joined by Brad Meyer. Here, John Allen interviews
Scott Kent:
Shop
Talk John Allen talks to Scott Kent on SPEAKERS.mp3
(81Mb 1:27)
Shop
Talk John Allen talks to Scott Kent on TAPE RECORDERS.mp3
(79Mb 1:26)
There is also an episode track
on the BAS
CD and here is that Description:
Track 12. "Shop Talk",
WHRB-FM, November 5, 1984.
Peter Mitchell (on the left), Richard Goldwater,
MD (center) and E. Brad Meyer (right) introduce
the show with a 1932 stereo recording and prepare
to talk with guests Mark Davis and David Moran,
both then of dbx corporation.
Shop Talk, which through most
of its ten-year life on WBUR featured just Mitchell
and Goldwater, was the precursor of Tom and Ray
Magliozzi's "Car Talk". As we finished
our 9:00-10:30 stint every Saturday morning, Tom
and Ray would take our places and begin joking
with each other. Eventually the station manager
figured out that they were funnier than we were,
and that more people drove cars than owned hi-fi
equipment, and fired us. Until then, the show
publicized the Boston Audio Society, vastly increasing
attendance at our monthly meetings. The show came
back for a time during the '80's on the Harvard
station WHRB, where we appeared once a month as
guests of HRB stalwart David Elliott. [EBM]
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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...
...and don't
forget, here is the master
list of microphones in the world
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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 an 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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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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