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When not recording and editing concerts, he enjoys playing tennis (having just won the B singles in the Jaffrey Tennis Tournament). His musical tastes tend toward the late romantic symphonic repertoire. He shares his home with 2000 long-playing records, 1600 compact disc recordings, and 400 laser video discs as well as the red wriggler worms he raises for composting.

One of the "Founding Fathers" of the BAS, AlvinFoster is the CEO of the letter shop. He obtained a doctorate degree from Boston University in 1974, with major courses in Organizational Management.

Prior to founding AMF Mail Advertising, Foster was an administrator in the Needham Public Schools, an Instructor at Boston State College, and an Assistant Dean of Students at Boston University

He started his own company, Point One Audio, in the late 1970s; he does location recording and digital editing of classical and some folk material. (He is also a folk guitar player of no special distinction) He has been on the Executive Committee of the Boston section of the Audio Engineering Society since the early '80s, and served two years as its chairman. In addition to his duties as writer and sometime editor of the Boston Audio Society Speaker, Meyer has written articles for the Boston Phoenix, High Fidelity and Stereo Review, and has had one BAS column republished in Stereophile.

He has published articles in several health care journals as well as Stereo Review and Stereo Equipment Review.

Born in southern Ohio into a music-loving family where his father was an early audiophile, David Moran came east for college and graduate school, and stayed.

Over the 40 years since, he has been a writer and editor in technology areas and on music. He has received two NEA fellowships for classical criticism. He was managing editor and audio editor of the Boston Phoenix during the 1970s, and worked for dbx engineering through the 1980s, where he was heavily involved in the Soundfield Imaging loudspeaker program.

He has been president of the BAS and editor of the BAS Speaker (currently assistant editor). He also is an amateur pianist.

Moran has written about music in a range of publications, about loudspeakers for Stereo Review and in AES preprints, and has tested speakers for CD Review, Digital Audio, Speaker Builder, Car Stereo Review and currently for Sensible Sound Magazine (these reviews are reprinted in the BASS).

He lives outside Boston in the country, with a large and quiet backyard usable for measuring loudspeakers half-anechoically. Several db-exers noted that as a speaker tester Moran would be "out standing in his field."

Dan Shanefield, one of the several BAS members-at-a-distance, lives in far-away New Jersey. Nevertheless, he has managed to shoehorn many articles into the BAS Speaker, one of which (in November 1974) triggered an avalanche of "objective" audio listening tests, worldwide. He has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Rutgers, worked in Bell Labs for 20 years, then was a professor at Rutgers for 15 years, and he is now "pretty much" retired.

Dan is the author of two engineering textbooks. His full length articles have been printed in such shiny-cover magazines as Audio, Stereo Review, and Nuts & Volts, including a seminal article about double-blind audio tests in the March 1980 issue of High Fidelity.

If you click HERE you can visit his web page, and then you could click at the top and see some of Dan's humorous little stories about things going dreadfully wrong during the mass production of electronic components.