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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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THE
BAS MESSAGE
July 2022 |
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1. The BAS Speaker
is soliciting submissions in July for the
August issue. Now is your chance to share
your audio observations, positive, negative
or neutral, with the promise of prompt publication.
It doesn’t have to be long. For example:
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Long Movie, Short
Review
Interstellar,
directed by Christopher Nolan (DVD,
168 min). Never could figure out what
it was about. Muddled science. Audio
compressed—shouting comes out at
conversational level.
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2. The Audiophile
Society (NY) invites us to a Zoom
meeting July 20, Wednesday, 7:30 PM with
Norman Varney, “Noise and Vibration from
an Audiophile’s Perspective.” He
is the Principal Consultant for A/V
RoomService, Ltd and has designed well
over 500 critical listening rooms around the
world.
Register in advance
for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkduytrz0iGNMuRQqHz8WpB8Z-ETcYXTu6
email me here
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Below,
other meetings and notices which
may be of interest to BAS members |
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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...
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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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