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MAY 2022 ONLINE MEETING NOTICE
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Date: Sunday, May 22,
2022, 7:00 PM
Place: ZOOM On-line
Guests: Nick Noiseux,
President of the Boston Audio Society
Topic: Reports on
the 2022 AXPONA high-end Audio Show
Audiophile consumers who regularly
attend the annual CES events in Las Vegas were discouraged
by CES’s declining and lack of hi-end displays
and booths. In part, due to CES’s diminishing
interest in featuring high quality consumer audio,
Audio Expo North America (AXPONA) came on-board
in 2016. The first AXPONA show was held in 2016.
The number in attendance has increased annually,
and Nick Noiseux said the hotel rooms were full
of consumers and high-end boots. He estimates 10,000
audiophiles were in attendance.
The mission of AXPONA, according
to its founders, ‘…is to bring together
the largest annual gathering of audio enthusiasts,
music lovers, audio dealers, manufacturers, and
distributors in North America. AXPONA engages and
entertains our audience by displaying immersive
listening experiences with high performance audio
products. We support the growth of the high-end
audio industry by cultivating a passionate community
and promoting the enjoyment of high-fidelity sound.’
The show includes multiple
hotel floors packed with over 140 listening rooms.
The Expo Hall features The Record Fair, The Ear
Gear Experience, and seminars. The show is geared
to the serious audiophile, newcomers to high-end
audio, and music lovers. The 3-day show took place
at the Renaissance Schaumburg, Hotel & Convention
Center, in Schaumburg, IL, April 22-24, 2022. Dates
for the 2023 show have been announced. Nick Noiseux
took many photos while in attendance. They will
be on display during his ZOOM presentation along
with his personal observations and listening critiques.
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Join the Zoom Meeting
If you are using a computer
and this is your first time with Zoom, please 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.
A HINT: IF you are
using your phone on WiFi TURN ON THE AIRPLANE
MODE.
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THE
BAS MESSAGE
May 2022 |
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The BAS is having a
Flea Market Saturday May 28, 10:00
AM-2:00 PM (rain date Sunday May 29, 1-5:00
PM) in the town of Rindge in the beautiful
Monadnock Region of New Hampshire.
Bring stuff you want
to sell. Dealer fee is $2. There is ample
free parking.
There is a large quantity
of electronic parts (mostly free) .
Also vintage stuff--SVHS
VCRs (including High Definition), Laserdisc
player + Jazz discs, Behringer DSP8024, Sound
Concepts 550, Marantz DP870, dbx 119, Audio
and Video Test equipment including a wow and
flutter meter, a TV/Satellite signal strength
meter, an Audio Precision System One test
set (free), audio/video/computer cables, speaker
wire, antenna hardware, some speakers and
ADS car speakers, Janis W-1 subwoofers, 3
Fender 110XP, single Allison One, Janszen
130 “Quadpod” electrostatic M/T,
JBL "egg" subwoofers, headphones,
parts cabinets both full and empty, DIY chassis,
breadboard, Sears Craftsman table saw, Heathkit
AC supply, Magnecord 1020 open reel tape recorder
(needs belt), 2 Hall Effect Hitachi D-7500
cassette decks (need belts), Revox cassette
deck (repair), turntable (repair), W10 laptop,
rock tumbler, sleep inducer, Ukrainian Purple
tomato plants and many other items!
There is a list of items
here: https://www.dbsystemsaudio.com/f.html
For directions, please
email me below.
email me here
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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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There is a posting of an ABX article, The
Digital Challenge by Stanley P. Lipshitz HERE
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Once again, for 2022
- 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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