The March Meeting will be held on Friday the 27th at the home of Mel Gross. The meeting will be co-hosted by club member Archie Munro. Archie has been working closely with Audio Note UK founder Peter Qvortrup for about three years leading up to his very recent appointment as the Audio Note Component Distributor for North America. He has also been working on developing a lineup of Audio Note inspired gear. The new line will be manufactured here in the US with each piece of gear selling for around the $1,000 mark.
Archie will be demonstrating a complete system of his prototype gear. We’ll be listening to a phono stage, line stage, DAC, stereo amplifier, speakers and TT all connected with Audio Note cables. Mel will be installing a 2 KW gas powered generator for use in powering all the filaments.
Archie will be joined by Peter Qvortrup’s close friend George McKinnis, and between them they have many Audio Note anecdotes to entertain and enlighten us with. Should be a fun listen.
In addition, club member Steve Bender been developing various electronic equipment, along with a few electrostatic-like sounding planar driver based headphones. Headphones are hot lately and Steve’s background in acoustics and psychoacoustics, may give him an edge in his design and development. Steve will demonstrate two or three pairs of his headphones at the meeting.
We’ll listen to the headphones, if time permits, in the main room using a headphone amplifier provided by Archie. Steve will use one of his modified rebook CD players for demonstrating the headphones in the smaller enclosed room off of Mel’s dining room.
Wow!! And if that’s not enough, time permitting we will be entertained by a violin player known by many of our members. Doors open at 7:30 with the formal meeting starting around 8:00.
Unlike Mel's forthcoming June meeting, this meeting is open to Audio Syndrome members ONLY. Also unlike the June meeting Mel will be serving pizza and it's up to US (the members) to show Mel our appreciation by supplying the beer / wine and desserts. Hope to see you all at this very special meeting.
