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Audiophile society:
For those who couldn’t
take the lamentable Zoom bombing or who couldn’t
log into the secure link when we restored
order, I’ve posted the meeting on YouTube.
I had to break it up into three parts because
of the YouTube file-size limit. I didn’t
want to compress the size beyond what I’ve
posted.
Martin’s presentation
is complete, then the Q&A is in 2 additional
parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2V8ZPE03A&list=PLA2B38gaXWCSAKAXK92sgpht-fPgayFys
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January
2022 ONLINE MEETING
Date: SATURDAY,
January 8, 2022, 1:30 PM Eastern
Place:
ZOOM
Featured
Guests: Martin
Colloms, editor of HIFI CRITIC magazine, www.hificritic.com
© 2014-2020
Topic:
How should we navigate Audio/Video magazines in
the digital age, and why do many still run analogue
systems based on the LP?
We are delighted
that the illustrious Martin Colloms, editor of HIFI
CRITIC magazine will be our ZOOM guest. He will
join us from the UK.
This is a
joint meeting of The Audiophile Society, The NJ
Audio Society, and the Boston Audio Society. The
meeting will begin at 1:30, with Martin Colloms'
Q&A starting at 2:00 PM. Participants should
“raise their hands” using the Zoom “Reactions”
to ask questions.
The HIFI
Critic Magazine is an independent, advertisement
free, audio review magazine. It features Colloms
and the erudite editor of the Gramophone, Andrew
Everard. Martin Colloms has a passion for audio
and music and has written for many of the key hi-fi
magazines worldwide. Martin has designed speakers
for companies other than Monitor Audio and/or consulted
on other speaker designs. The hard copy subscription
costs $120 Airmail to USA. Over the years, the magazine
has accumulated an endless list of reviews featuring
hundreds of amplifiers, loudspeakers, and turntables.
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Join the
Zoom Meeting
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Ken
Schwarz is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom
meeting.
Time: Saturday January
8, 2022, from 1:30 - 3:30 PM Eastern (SUGGEST
1:15 PM )
Meeting
ID: 832 1157 3663
Passcode:
869091
PLEASE
NOTE that the login link, Meeting ID, and Passcode
ARE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE PREVIOUS ones. |
If you are using a computer
and this is your first time with Zoom, give yourself
at least 15-20 minutes prior to the meeting
to set things up: you click on the link in the Zoom
instructions below and will be guided to download
the Zoom software, HERE:
https://zoom.us/download
You can use your computer’s
audio if you have a headset attached, or you can
dial-in for audio. If you have a smart phone or
tablet and a good internet connection, then you
should install the Zoom app for your device and
connect using it.
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THE
BAS MESSAGE
January 2022 |
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1. In the BBC
Music magazine, there is a review of Beethoven’s
9 symphonies. The reviewer says “there
are two that I have heard so often that I
can not longer respond to them”. He doesn’t
say which but I guess 5 and 9. Nv20
2. I saw a favorable
review in BBC Music of the comic operetta
Passionnement by Andre Messager and decided
to buy it.
Amazon sells the CD
for $33.37 which is a little steep for light
music. Or you can buy the MP3 file for $11.47
but no booklet. I found Prestomusic sells
it for $9.25 with downloadable booklet. They
state the bit rate, 320 kbps, and warn that
there may be glitches in between tracks since
MP3 files cannot be perfectly joined. Since
the songs are all followed by silence that
is not a problem. I burned a data cd and listened
to it on my Blu-player. I was going to print
out the booklet but it is 233 pages! I printed
selected pages. Se21
email me here
Webmaster's
note: The
BBC Music Magazine has changed their URL to
https://www.classical-music.com
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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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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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L L O F F S I T E L I N K S O
P E N I N T O A N
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There is a posting of an ABX article, The
Digital Challenge by Stanley P. Lipshitz HERE
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Once again, for 2021
- and onward - is THE useful industry calendar
of audio/related events, with kudos to all who put
this list together:
www.stiernberg.com/industry-calendar
Separately, AV-IQ
has their event page here:
https://www.av-iq.com/avcat/ctl1642/index.cfm?events
For a fully comprehensve
understanding of meetings taking place - both real
and virtual - in this ongoing pandemic situation,
you need to look at BOTH listings.
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— Barry
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