Location: Colonial Cadillac, Conference Room on 2nd floor (staircase in showroom)
201 Cambridge Rd, Woburn, MA 01801
Please do not park in customer area in front of the showroom.
Featured Guest: Ed Ting, science writer, teacher, and musician
Topic: “Audiophilia Nervosa – One Man’s Fifty-Year Journey Towards Obtaining Good (and bad) Sound”
Ed Ting has been fascinated by recorded sound since he was old enough to talk. When he was nine, he took his father’s tape recorder and aimed the mike at the evening news, and broke the recorder in the process. Since then, he has owned many audio systems, including a $5 Radio Shack transistor radio, a hand-me-down Garrard/Fisher stereo, a portable CD player with headphones, to a full-sized system in a dedicated audio room today. Hear about what he’s learned, what he got right, and what went wrong in his quest for good sound.
Ed is a well-known amateur astronomer whose works have appeared in Sky & Telescope, Skywatch, Astronomy, Discover, and Popular Mechanics magazines. He is a National Science Foundation Ambassador to Chile, a Mission Patagonia ambassador, and a NASA Solar System Ambassador. His science-themed YouTube channel has 65,000 subscribers and gets two million views a year. Ed’s creative works have appeared in literary journals. He is a past winner of the NH State Flash Fiction contest and was selected as Writer-in–Residence at the Noepe Center for the Fine Arts in Edgartown, Massachusetts. He teaches creative writing at New England College and at various writing retreats across New England. Ed holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, an MFA from New England College, and a MALS degree from Dartmouth, where he produced an award-winning thesis on astronomical imaging. He is a retired Category 3 bicycle racer, a classical/New Age pianist, and an enthusiastic fudge confectioner.
There will be light refreshments
