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SORRY,
SUNDAY'S MEETING IS CANCELLED.
Date: Sunday, February 22,
2015, 6:00 PM
Place: Boston University, Life
Science & Engineering Bldg, 24 Cummington Mall,
1st Floor Conference Rm. 103, Boston, MA 02215
Guest: Ken Wacks, Nick Noiseux,
& Alvin Foster
Topic/Activity: The 2015 CES
(Consumer Electronics Show) Report
The February meeting of the BAS
will feature the annual ‘CES Report’ by
members in attendance at the 2015 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, Nick Noiseux, and Ken
Wacks. The attendees at our meeting will report on
what's new and interesting at the largest consumer
electronics show in the world. Their report will include
rumors, photos, and predictions on what's 'hot' for
2015.
The Consumer Electronics Show,
Las Vegas, is the Official Media Event of home and
audio products. It is attended by more than 1,200
media outlets from around the world. Some 20,000 new
products and technologies will be unveiled –
the global gathering place for all who thrive on the
business of consumer technology. Other than state
of the art audio, our guest will talk about 4 &
8K television, Toyota’s hydrogen car, and more.
Refreshments will be available
at 5:30 PM.
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Directions: Note
that parking is no longer allowed in the
block in front of our meeting place (temp
parking for unloading/loading is OK).
There is a gap in
the BU buildings on Commonwealth Ave.
so you can walk directly through to the
meeting location.
At Boston University,
Cummington St. (Mall) is an east-west
street just south of Commonwealth Ave.
It is one-way going west. 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.(Mall) (at a traffic light) and turn
right on Cummington St. (Mall) The entrance
is on your left, number 24.
From Commonwealth
Ave going west, after Kenmore Square,
after the tracks come up out of the tunnel,
there is a traffic light at Blandford.
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 Mall and then a right
onto Cummington Mall.
-or-
Use your GPS (!)
—
Webmaster's note: Google maps and Apple
maps show them as Blandford Mall
and Cummington Mall. Bing maps
shows them as Blandford Street
and Cummington Street. YMMV.
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The
BAS Message
February 2015
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1. From John
Atkinson in reply to a letter in the November
2014 Stereophile:
"By the time this issue hits newstands...the
Meyer-Moran article to which you refer.[Audibility
of a CD- Standard A/D/A Loop Inserted into High
Resolution Playback ] ..will have been shown
to be incorrect in a paper presented at the
137th AES convention [by Robert Stuart of Meridian].”
I forwarded this to the
people involved and in the resulting discussion
Robert Adams of Analog Devices pointed out the
the filters used in the testing were much sharper
than those used in typical pro audio convertors.
In fact the total impulse response length of
their (Stuart's) digital filter is in the range
of 8ms. A typical converter filter is in the
range of .5ms to 1ms. So this is overstated
by a factor of at least 8.
Why Stuart did this is not
clear, perhaps to generate an audible result
for the purpose of the paper. And his company
(Meridian) is in the business of marketing high
resolution audio equipment. However it's meaningless
for real world results. Unfortunately this paper
has caused some mischief in the audiophile community
since it is being used by proponents of high
resolution audio to justify their cause (“High
Resolution Audio: Does it Matter? “ Amir
Majidimehr, Wide Screen Review, January 2015).
2. BASS V36N4
has been published. It features meeting summaries
of Charles P. Repka: Engineering, Recording
and the Videodisc by David Hadaway, and Tom
Perazella: Unlock the Music by Alvin Foster.
Also West Side Story at Symphony Hall by John
S. Allen and Audio Exp North America by Jim
Buchanan and reports on CEDIA Expo 2014.
email me here
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| Below,
other meetings and notices which may be of interest
to BAS members |
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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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| 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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P E N I N T O A N E W W
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There is a posting of an ABX article, The
Digital Challenge by Stanley P. Lipshitz HERE
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Classifieds
( A new section! Watch for a full
page coming soon ! )
NOTE: offsite links open into a new page.
BAS Members may SELL items here; anyone may BUY. |
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The Boston Audio Society needs individuals
who will write summaries of BAS meetings into *.pages, *.doc, or *.txt
files. We usually have audio recordings of the meetings. We pay for
your work. Ask about our bonus program for meeting-writers! Contact
David B. Hadaway (603-899-5121; dbsys2@att.biz).
For sale: Several CD storage racks,
some made by Bostonwood (www.BostonWood.com/cd.html):
Two four-shelf units (25.5"Hx17"Wx5.5"D); One four-shelf
unit (25.5"Hx24"Wx5.5"D); Two three-shelf units (19.5"Hx17"Wx6.5"D);
one home-made three-shelf unit (18"Hx14"Wx6"D). I have
attached a handle and chains to several units, making them convenient
open-top carriers. David J. Weinberg (Maryland; 301-593-3230).
Seeking a two-channel preamplifier
such as an Apt Holman, an early Hafler, or an early NAD. Must work properly.
Fred Ampel (FAmpel@KC.RR.com).
Seeking prereceord Advent cassettes,
especially Russell Sherman Beethoven and Liszt recordings, and Handel's
Messiah performed by the Handel & Haydn Society under Thomas Dunn.
David R. Moran (DRMoran@aol.com).
I am disposing of all my old copies of the
BAS Speaker, which go back to 1978, more or less complete. I am going
to recycle these with waste paper unless somebody wants them for free.
I'll even pay shipping. Doug Pomeroy Audio Restoration & Mastering
Services audiofixer@verizon.net
Discography of Test Records. I am
compiling a list of technical test records from all recording eras and
would like to exchange information in order to confirm, expand, correct
and add entries. Send me your list and/or other information about test
records and I will send you my discography, which has nearly 200 entries
to date. I am interested in commercially released records, as well as
discs intended primarily for in-house use by audio engineers, broadcasters
and for other special applications. I am generally excluding demonstration
discs of the "Super Stereo bouncing ping-pong ball" type unless
they include at least some tracks of a technical nature, such as frequency
response and tracking tests, etc. Nicholas Starin, Portland Oregon,
NTSTestDisc@Gmail.com.
Nashville AES Test CD. (www.AESNashville.org;
click the small round symbol where it says "Click here for more
info:" to download the four-page description and track list. Use
the link on the website under <Products> to send an email for
pricing and availability.) From the website: "Assembled 'by engineers,
for engineers' after a survey of the needs of a broad cross-section
of working audio pros, the disc features 71 tracks of test signals ranging
from level calibration tones, noise signals, third-octave tones, polarity
and digital meter calibration pulses, bandpassed noise and swept sinewaves.
Additional tracks include dry-recorded kick and snare drums, acoustic
guitar and piano along with spoken word and a cappella male and female
vocals. A data area on the disc features BPM charts, Excel-based calculators
and other bonus material. The CD booklet includes tutorial information
on using the test disc."
For sale: Three Denon DR-M34HR cassette
decks ($500srp) with three heads and live monitoring of the recording,
dual Dolby B/C and Dolby HX Pro circuitry. Handles normal, chrome and
metal-tape cassettes. Highly regarded in 1988. Gasparo Records used
them as duplicators. In good shape. Data at www.VintageCassette.com/denon/dr-m34hr.
$125 ea+shipping. Contact David B. Hadaway. dbsys2@att.biz.
For sale: Arcam Solo Movie 5.1 (www.Arcam.co.uk/products,solo,Movie-Systems,SoloMovie51.htm;
$4500srp) The manual is downloadable from the Arcam website. I do not
have original packaging. $1000+shipping, which will be calculated once
destination is determined. Funds transfer or cash only; no checks. Fred
Ampel (FAmpel@KC.RR.com).
For sale. Two Tannoy HPD 315 speakers,
made in the mid-1970s, woofers might need refoaming. Steven Weiner (SDWeiner@ATT.net;
818-865-0601; Thousand Oaks, CA) is asking $500+s/h. [I have seen a
photo; the cabinets and grill look to be close to mint condition. This
ad was placed at the request of member Randy Hoffner. DJW]
Seeking: Soundfield Mark IV microphone.
Jim Mastracco (James.Mastracco@Verizon.net).
Laserdiscs for sale by David J.
Weinberg (301-593-3230; WeinbergDJ@BostonAudioSociety.org)
Four have Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Nine have DTS5.1 soundtrack.
Make offer for all or selected items.
| TITLE |
CLV / CAV? |
ASPECT
RATIO |
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| Apocalypse Now |
CLV |
2 |
| Apollo 13 |
CLV |
2.35 |
| Batman (Michael
Keaton) |
CLV |
1.78 |
| Blade Runner (Director's
Cut) |
CAV |
2.48 |
| Blown Away |
CLV/CAV |
2.35 |
| Crimson Tide |
CLV |
2.35 |
| Daylight |
CLV |
1.85 |
| Evita |
CLV |
2.35 |
| Forbidden Planet |
CAV |
2.35 |
| Golden Eye |
CLV/CAV |
2.35 |
| The Grifters |
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| Highlander (10th
Anniversary Director's Cut) |
CLV/CAV |
1.82 |
| The Hunt for Red
October |
CLV |
2.35 |
| In The Mouth Of
Madness |
CLV |
2.35 |
| Jurassic Park |
CLV |
1.85 |
| Jurassic Park |
CAV |
1.85 |
| Phenomenon |
CLV |
2.35 |
| Pocahontas |
CLV |
1.66 |
| Pretty Woman |
CLV |
1.85 |
| Raiders of the Lost
Ark |
CLV |
2.35 |
| Raiders of the Lost
Ark |
CAV |
1.33 |
| Star Wars: Episode
1 - A Phantom Menace |
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| Toy Story |
CLV |
1.78 |
| Who Framed Roger
Rabbit |
CLV |
1.75 |
Own a movie theater sound system! For sale,
top-of-the-line High Performance Stereo HPS-4000-XL screen speaker systems.
Three (left, center, right) HPS model 545-4 speaker systems (www.HPS4000.com/pages/fivefortyfive_.html)
and two HPS model 545-W subwoofer speaker systems (www.HPS4000.com/pages/545_w_.html).
All in perfect working order. The speakers are not light, but consist
of modules that can be lifted by two moderately strong men. Truck delivery
only, or come pick up. Make me an offer. David J. Weinberg (301-593-3230;
WeinbergDJ@BostonAudioSociety.org):
Most units come with user manuals (some also
with service manuals), remotes and cartons, as applicable. Make offer:
- ReplayTV 2020 with aftermarket larger
disk drive. Includes lifetime electronic program guide service.
- Faroudja VP400A video quadrupler. Upscales
NTSC video to 960 progressively scanned lines for a front or rear
CRT projector. Generates great image on my big screen. I don't need
it because I'm modifying my video system.
- Runco 980Ultra CRT projector (original
packing, user and service manuals).
- Vutec concave high-gain silvered screen.
8' wide, 16:9 aspect ratio, with wallmount brackets. Silvered surface
makes it appropriate for 3D projection, as the high gain overcomes
the substantial light loss caused by the various consumer 3D projection
technologies, and the curved shape can deliver a wide viewing angle
with little hotspotting.
- Lexicon DC1 surround processor, with all
options.
- Panasonic RP-91D DVD player with JVB Digital
regionfree mod.
- Sony DVP-NS755V SACD (multichannel and
stereo), DVD, etc., progressive-scan output. $250srp.
- Tektronix D11 rackmount single-beam storage
oscilloscope with 5A15N vertical amp and 5B10N time-base/amplifier.
- Tektronix 5111 rackmount single-beam storage
oscilloscope with two 5A18 vertical amps and 5B10N time-base/amplifier.
- Teac AN-180 external dual Dolby B processor.
Simultaneous stereo record and playback.
- Pioneer CT-F4242 cassette deck, in excellent
condition.
- Garrard RC88 turntable with Shure M3D cartridge,
in excellent condition.
- Sony XM-5046 car audio amp, 4x50W into
4 Ohms
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| Webmaster's
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| Once
again, for 2014, here's a very useful industry 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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