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BOSTON AUDIO SOCIETY
January 2011 Meeting
Date: Sunday, January 23, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Boston University, Life Science and Engineering Bldg,
24 Cummington St, 1st Floor Conference Room (Room 103), Boston,
MA 02215, (617) 271-6588
The January meeting of the BAS will feature the annual "CES
Report" by members in attendance at the 2011 Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas. The CES Report is one of our most popular
meetings of the year. Show attendees this year included Alvin
Foster, Walter Swanbon, John Emerson, John F. Allen, Stephen
Owades, Keith Larson, and others. The attendees at our meeting
will report on what's new and interesting at the 2nd largest
electronics show in the world. Their report will include rumors,
photos, and predictions on what's 'hot' for 2012.
Refreshments will be available at 5:30 PM.
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Directions: At
Boston University, Cummington St is an east-west
street just south of Commonwealth Ave. It is one-way
going west.
Parking on both Commonwealth Av and Cummington St.
is free and available.
From Storrow Drive going east,
take the first BU exit. At the stop sign turn right
on Commonwealth Ave (A left is not permitted). Bear
left and at the 3rd light take a u-turn, go half
a mile and turn right on Blandford St. (at a traffic
light) and turn right on Cummington St.
From Commonwealth Ave going west, after Kenmore
Square, after the tracks come up out of the tunnel,
there is a traffic light at Blandford (on your left).
You should turn left on Blandford, but no left is
permitted. Instead, turn right and make a U-turn.
Continue on Blandford and turn right on Cummington
St. The entrance is on your left, number 24.
MBTA Green line - exit
at Kenmore Square or the next stop, Blandford St.
& Commonwealth Ave. Walk a short distance and
make a left turn onto Blandford St. and right onto
Cummington St.
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| Below,
other meetings and notices which may be of interest to BAS members |
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WEBMASTER'S
NOTE: The FCC has mandated
that OPERATION OF WIRELESS MICROPHONES IN THE 700 MHZ
BAND IS PROHIBITED AFTER JUNE 12, 2010. Inasmuch as
there is a LOT of misinformation about this, the ONLY correct
and relevant page is here:
www.fcc.gov/cgb/wirelessmicrophones
There is also a page with full lists of products affected
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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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| There
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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A L L O
F F S I T E L I N K S O P E N I N T
O A N E W W I N D O W
- AND FOR CONVENIENCE -
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The
BAS Message
January 2012
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1. V33n4 of the BAS Speaker has been published.
It features a writeup of the meeting at David Moulton's house, discussing
eq for mastering, written by John S. Allen. Also extended reminiscences
of Edgar Villchur and Daniel von Recklinghausen; Reports on CEDIA 2011 by
David Weinberg and Jim Buchanan; and AES 2011 by David Weinberg and Alvin
Foster. 33 pp
2. I recently watched "Tree of Life."
At the beginning there it says "For maximum enjoyment of this movie
the producers [6 of them!] recommend that you play it loud." So I turned
up the volume and started the movie. At the first voiceover I jumped for
the volume control as it was too loud and almost unintelligible. Once the
volume was lowered I sat back and enjoyed the movie*. It is nominally about
a boy growing up in Texas, but is really about images and sounds. (A movie
theater in CT posted a sign warning that there would be no refunds for those
seeing this movie). A plus is the almost continuous classical music soundtrack,
mostly familiar, but some not.
* Explanation: If a director decides to have a program
with wide dynamic range, from very soft to loud, then of necessity the average
level is lower than that of a compressed program. Thus the admonition to
play it loud since most people probably play everything at the same level.
However the dialogue level was raised, forcing me to reduce the volume,
thereby partly subverting what they were trying to achieve. Still a commendable
effort.
email me 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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| Webmaster's
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again, for 2012, here's a very useful calendar of audio/related events,
with kudos to any and all who put this list together: www.stiernberg.com/events.html |
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— Barry
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