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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
also see the President's
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Blesser at the March 2007 Meeting. The Meeting page synopsis is
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BOSTON AUDIO SOCIETY
April 2008 Meeting
Date: Sunday, April 20, 2008
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Boston University, Life Science & Engineering Bldg, 24
Cummington St, 1st Floor Conference Room (room 103), Boston, MA 02215,
(617) 271-6588
Featured Guest: Bob Miller, Audio Radiance
Recordings
Topic: Conductors and Orchestras at Boston
Symphony Hall, Recording Mistakes
1. Conductors and the Sound of Orchestras: There
has been much debate about the degree to which conductors affect the
sound of the orchestras they conduct. The performances of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra have been recorded for fifty years (50) with only
one major change in the recording techniques used (circa 1980). This
provides an opportunity to compare how the orchestra played the same
piece under the direction of several conductors. The archives of the
B.S.O. will be source of the recordings that are played.
2. Recording Mistakes: Many of us believe recordings
are carefully planned and executed commercial enterprises with care
taken at all levels of the production process. Often this is not the
case. The demo will highlight three (3) recordings that either are
(lucky) accidents or were (detrimentally) altered in the editing process.
Bob Miller is a recording engineer (Audio Radiance
Recordings) who enjoys recording live classical music concerts. He
also is a volunteer at the Boston Symphony's Archives and over the
years has become familiar with the vast collection of broadcast recordings
in their collection. In a prior incarnation he toiled as an electronic
engineer and programmer. Bob has received degrees from M.I.T. and
Northeastern University.
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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,
turn left onto Blandford (at a traffic light). Then turn right
onto Cummington St.
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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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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President's
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April 2008
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1. Volumes 1-10 of the BAS Speaker are
now available as pdf files on CD. They comprise about 2500 pages of text
from 1973 to 1982. The price is $40 for non-members, $30 for members and
$20 as part of a membership renewal. Those who have helped out in the scanning
will receive a free copy.
2. The Heath Company's Electronic learning
labs offered a way of learning the basics. Now Agilent Technologies has
introduced a product to learn modern instruments and measurements. The Agilent
U3000A Electronic Instrumentation Training Kit was designed specifically
to assist in learning instrument operation and measurement techniques. It
works with the four most comon pieces of test equipment that every engineer
uses: the digital multimeter, a power supply, an oscilloscope, and a function
generator. The kit is made up of a PIC microcontroller and a variety of
peripherals, such as an analog-to-digital converter, power sources, temperature
sensor, 8-bit LED display, buzzer and relay. An introduction to digital
sampling scopes is provided along with measurement techniques. Users can
even demo signal displays in the frequency domain using a scope's fast Fourier
transform. The secret to making this kit successful is the complete documentation
supplied and the ready-to-run lab experiments. The experiments are designed
around Agilent instruments, but other equipments probably could be used.
$199. Root URL: www.agilent.com
Direct reference section: HERE
3. Man retires on "record sale"
A man says he can now retire because someone bought his massive record collection
on eBay for the asking price —- $3 million. The price tag is one of
the highest recorded by eBay. A buyer from Ireland agreed to shell out $3,002,150
for the collection of nearly 3 million vinyl albums, singles and CDs, owner
Paul Mawhinney said. On Thursday, the 68-year-old Mawhinney closed Record
Rama that had opened in Ross Township (OH) in 1968. "I am legally blind.
I had a couple of strokes a few years ago...and it's time at my age to think
about doing something else with my life," he said
4. In "The Emperor's New Sampling
Rate —- Are CDs Actually Good Enough?" Paul Lehrman writes in
the April 2008 Mix about David Moran and Brad Meyer's ABX tests of HiRez
versus CD quality.
5. For BAS members out of town we have
a special offer for Jazz lovers. A package of 30 Jazz CDs, randomly picked
from Ira Leonard's collection, for $22 including shipping in the USA. To
order, send a check, made out to "Boston Audio Society", to David
Hadaway, POB 460, Rindge NH 03461. These were donated to the Society by
Ira's brother, Joe Leonard.
President, Boston Audio Society
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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again, for 2008, 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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