Meetings and other Notices
No May Meeting! |
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June
Live
and Zoom Meeting |
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Date:
Sunday,
June 7, 2026
Time:
2-4 pm
EST
Place:
Colonial
Cadillac,
Conference
Room,
2nd
FL
(Use
staircase
in
showroom),
201
Cambridge
Rd,
Woburn
MA
01801
(Please,
do
not
park
in
Customer
Area)
Featured
Guest:
Masa
Nagamiya,
Product
lead for
automotive
audio at
Bose
Corporation
Topic:
The Joys
and
Challenges
of
Automotive
Audio
Systems
Masa
Nagamiya
is automotive
audio
product
lead at
Bose
Corporation,
responsible
for
the automotive
audio
roadmap,
aligning
strategy,
engineering,
and OEM
partners
around
the
world. Masa
will
talk
about
his
career
and the
business
and
technology
of
achieving
audio
excellence
inside
motor
vehicles.
There
will be
light
refreshments.
The Boston Audio Society is a
gathering
place
for
audio
and
video
hobbyists.
For 53
years,
we have
worked
diligently
to
create
an
atmosphere
of
consumer,
audio
education
at its
best.
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Hope to see you
there.
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THE BAS MESSAGE
June 2026 |
Miscellaneous News
1.
YouTube is now
offering classic
movies free with
ads. I watched
Charade with
Audrey Hepburn and
Cary Grant. It
is a delightful
comedy and has very
natural sound.
A droll audio moment
is when they are on
a riverboat and it
passes under a
bridge. The
sound becomes
reverberant for a
short while.
John F. Allen:
Oddly enough I
watched it last
Saturday. Most of
the dialog was
dubbed but not in an
annoying way. The
echo under the
bridges was done by
the mixers on their
own, without the
director’s input.
I agree, a great
movie with wonderful
performances and
lots of gags. (It’s
one of my
favorites.)
2. There is a
YouTube series
called “Guess the
Composer.” In
it you are presented
with 15 brief music
selections and you
try to guess the
composer. You
are then given a
chance to guess the
work. It’s fun
and I scored
typically 11 to 13
out of 15.
3. I can recommend
The Mahler 5 video
performance on
YouTube with Saraste
and the WDR
Orchestra The sound
is marvelously clear
with wide dynamic
range. If you
want to sample it I
suggest the
Adagietto at 43:22
to the end. TT
68 min.
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Below, other meetings and notices which
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JUST RELEASED !
A fantastic historical video!
Ken Berger and Kenton Forsythe are the founders of EAW (Eastern Acoustics Works) and they discuss, with terrific overlaid graphics, the history of, well, pretty much every audio thing Boston from the early 70's.
18 minutes and right here: https://youtu.be/fPfQEK0b0mI
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A Boston issue - As MIX magazine reports:
Sound Museum owners cry foul as their tenants likely secure new spaces without them
While the headline sounds like someone has sour grapes, the complete story of how the closure of this crucial Boston rehearsal studio is being handled is far more nuanced and complicated -- particularly since it brings up issues of gentrification, government support of the arts, non-profits' ethics and more. Full Story HERE (WBUR-FM Boston (1/11/23)
And here's an update:
www.wbur.org/news/2023/01/25/charlestown-rehearsal-studios-musicians-boston
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MAHLER 3
In the recent (April 2022) performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony at Boston's Symphony Hall by Ben Zander and his Boston Philharmonic, the recording was done with the three main spaced omnis with two more farther back. No accent mikes or chorus microphones were used nor, it turns out, were they needed. Remarkably, this produced a recording that is as close to the Symphony Hall experience as may be possible.
The info is here: www.bostonphil.org/concerts/2021-2022/bpo4-mahler3
Here is the recording in its entirety as a single .WAV file; 44k / 16 bit; 1hr 47 min
Mahler Sym 3 CD.wav 1.1GB
(For those of you with editing software note that the .wav file HAS markers to denote the movements.)
Here is the exact same Symphony 3 with the movements separated as FLAC files, 48k / 24 bit as a ZIPped file: Mahler 3 Zander as FLAC.zip 1GB
IF you'd like further Gustav Mahler info... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler
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Shop Talk
Shop Talk was a WBUR program about Hi Fidelity, music, speakers, tape recorders, etc. Enjoyed by many during the 1970s, the program's format was ‘talk’ and interviewing major audio luminaries. It was a forerunner of the popular program Car Talk!
Peter Mitchell and Dr. Richard Goldwater were the original hosts. They were later joined by Brad Meyer. Here, John Allen interviews Scott Kent:
Shop Talk John Allen talks to Scott Kent on SPEAKERS.mp3 (81Mb 1:27)
Shop Talk John Allen talks to Scott Kent on TAPE RECORDERS.mp3 (79Mb 1:26)
There is also an episode track on the BAS CD and here is that Description:
Track 12. "Shop Talk", WHRB-FM, November 5, 1984.
Peter Mitchell (on the left), Richard Goldwater, MD (center) and E. Brad Meyer (right) introduce the show with a 1932 stereo recording and prepare to talk with guests Mark Davis and David Moran, both then of dbx corporation.
Shop Talk, which through most of its ten-year life on WBUR featured just Mitchell and Goldwater, was the precursor of Tom and Ray Magliozzi's "Car Talk". As we finished our 9:00-10:30 stint every Saturday morning, Tom and Ray would take our places and begin joking with each other. Eventually the station manager figured out that they were funnier than we were, and that more people drove cars than owned hi-fi equipment, and fired us. Until then, the show publicized the Boston Audio Society, vastly increasing attendance at our monthly meetings. The show came back for a time during the '80's on the Harvard station WHRB, where we appeared once a month as guests of HRB stalwart David Elliott. [EBM]
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| BAS MICROPHONE CLINIC REPORT ! |
| In September 2009 the B A S held a microphone clinic, testing 37 different microphone models. The ambitious nature of the clinic effort, the extent of data collection, the number of individuals involved in microphone testing and in writing various sections of the report, and the complexity in determining how to construct the clinic report and make it available to members resulted it not being published until now. The dataset is extensive.
Representative samples were included in the abbreviated report in "The B A S Speaker"
(Fall 2015; v37n3)
Go to the MICROPHONE CLINIC PAGE for more...
...and don't forget, here is the master list of microphones in the world
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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 an 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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