Wednesday Evening October 21st 7pm Live Guitarist Chris Dorsey

Inventor, teacher, published poet and genius. Do not miss an opportunity to spend an hour with Peter Ledermann founder of Sound-Smith.

Do yourself a favor and read Soundsmith Founder and President Peter Ledermann's essay, Animating Life.

Sound-Smith  supports a Pro-Children organization "Direct Grace Records".
Your music purchase goes to help sponsor rescued children around the world.


I hope you all are able to enjoy this very special presentation this Saturday Afternoon!!

NEW EVENT September 23rd 7pm

At Faith Lutheran Church 8th Street and Camelback.

Standmount Speaker Shootout!

We are assembling member owned models for comparison.  

Planning to have the Joseph Pulsars, Sonus Faber Electra Amator III, Totem Acoustics Sky Lite, LSA 10s, NHT, Golden Ear BRX, Ohm Walsh, and two others.

Social distancing and masks will be observed.

Introduction to Orchard Audio

Orchard Audio is the result of decades of engineering expertise and consulting work for some of the world's most advanced companies (NASA, Lockheed Martin, L3 Technologies, Siemens).

After designing products for several elite names in the industry, Orchard Audio was launched in 2017 to independently release its own line of advanced audio products.  

Leonid (Leo) Ayzenshtat, Founder

Time: Aug 22, 2020 03:00 PM Arizona

it may come as a shock to note that some of high-end audio's greatest engineers started out in rock and roll. Take John Curl, in the early 1970s he worked his magic on the Grateful Dead's concert and recording sound systems and later kept the Jefferson Airplane aloft. That was just before he tackled film sound in Hollywood. All of that led to collaborations with high-end pioneer Mark Levinson; together they raised the stakes, considerably, with the JC 2 stereo preamplifier in 1974.

Marquee: So, in simple terms what is the Sonoma System?
Skinas: It’s a computer that sounds like an analog tape recorder. It uses a completely new one-bit sigma delta technology for recording music in a computer— different than PCM — that has the character of what analog tape sounds like. I’m convinced that digital music has distortions in the spatial time domain. This fixes that. It may not be something you can easily measure, but it’s something that the brain says, “This isn’t quite right.”

Marquee: You’re convinced, but the industry really isn’t yet, right?
Skinas: Yes. And that’s the big worry. That if I don’t pull this off, we’re going to go backwards, or go to the status quo and instead of quality getting better and better it’s going to get worse. The problem is that I don’t think that quality is an issue to record company management, except for the labels that make a living on it, like Telarc. The big labels make more money from ringtones and Guitar Hero than they do with pressed discs. This technology is a golden opportunity to actually make some money with something of better quality. It’s not a matter of business for me, it’s a matter of losing an opportunity to do it the right way and fix what we broke.

JansZen Loudspeaker, Ltd. was founded in 2005 by David A. Janszen, Arthur's elder son. An electrostatic loudspeaker company with a Janszen doing the engineering is bound to advance the art, which we have done. JansZen has restored the family charter of making the best sound reproducers of our time, and David stakes his family name on that.Zoom info below:

Topic: David Janszen

Time: Jun 6, 2020 03:00 PM Arizona

In 1974, Paul met Dr. Floyd Toole, a world renowned psychoacoustician at the NRC, who conducted numerous studies to understand how sounds were interpreted by the human sense of hearing at both the psychological and physiological levels. To Paul, who had devoted much of his childhood to become an accomplished violinist, it was a “Eureka” moment. He had long puzzled over how to consistently reproduce on a set of speakers the unique timbres of different violins exactly as they would sound to him when he played them.

opic: Paul Barton (the P in PSB) Speakers, His Wife the S - Canadian Speaker Legend

PSB Zoom Interview Link:

https://youtu.be/JKsXt8NuA_Y

TAS - March 2020 - Sanders Magtech Editor's Choice Award

Roger Sanders built and patented  the original curved front electrostatic panel design  (1979) which are still in use by Martin Logan and others.

Roger Sanders eschewed this design in favor of his current flat panel presentation.

Listen to Roger explain why he designs as he does. As an electrical engineer he can and will

explain his positions.

http://sanderssoundsystems.com/technical-white-papers

Darren Myers is a Development Engineer at PS Audio. He started his career designing products for Bowers & Wilkins and Classé Audio. His favorite activities include listening to music, attending concerts, DIY audio, and hiking. He lives in the Boulder area with his wife Amanda and his dog Bode. Darren has designed the following components:

-S300 Stereo Amplifier

-M700 Monoblocks

-M1200 Monoblocks

-Stellar Phono Preamp

Part 1

https://youtu.be/4RSIjDwzyKc
Part 2

https://youtu.be/MDlYWrYzAYU
Extra
https://youtu.be/G6Dk-LiXgZQ

January 29th -Wednesday-7pm- Faith Lutheran Church- 801 E. Camelback Rd, Phoenix

Produced By Paul Righello -DOOR PRIZE NEW SCHIIT MAGNI HEADPHONE AMP

 Andrew Jones of Elac Sound  Speaks. Andrew Jones has an impressive history in loudspeakers, having served as the chief speaker engineer at KEF, Infinity, Technical Audio Devices Laboratories (TAD), and Pioneer, where he established a reputation for designing budget speakers that sound shockingly good. 

Link to Andrew Jones January 2020 AZAVCLUB Presentation:

 ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvQjsl_1vc&t=3s

YES

February 26th-Wednesday-5pm-9pm Woolson's Audio, 3202 S. 40th Street, Phoenix

Produced by Joe Goswami 

Vintage Gear- Woolson's Audio. This store is normally only open on Saturdays from 10am-4pm.  Your chance  to explore one of  Arizona Audio's best kept secrets. The store has been more of a private club than a typical retail experience. Larry Woolson and his son AJ present you an exhaustive, lifetime collection of vintage gear. Soon to be the only retailer to accept desirable consignment hifi gear locally. https://www.woolsonaudio.com/

  NOPE-Covid Cancellation Notice

The March Meeting will not be Held. Look for a reschedule notice when available

March 25th-Wednesday- 7pm Faith Lutheran Church- 801 E. Camelback Rd, Phoenix

Produced By Bob Olivere

6:30-7:30 pm. Charles Kirmuss, inventor of the world's best vinyl record cleaning system will speak and demonstrate his new product. Tom Rothermel, lifelong Man of Vinyl, will  take the stage  at 7:30 to 8:30  to show how to optimize your  TT  operation & maintain it as it should be. https://www.kirmussaudio.com/

https://www.BIGEARSTEREO.com/

NOPE- Cancelled/Postponed

April 29th- Wednesday-7. Phoenix Burton Barr Main Library.1221 N. Central Ave, Phoenix 

Produced By Curt Dragonavich and Joe Goswami

Working demonstrations of assembled DIY products. Pass Labs Designed Class A kit, monoblock amps,  Class D amp designs @ 200 wpc , Speaker packages including SEAS products,

All those who are interested in owning HiFi for Low $ will  have an opportunity to see it all demystified. 

NOPE-Cancelled/Postponed

May 7th -Thursday 3PM-6PM- Acoustic Designs-16074 N. 78th St, Scottsdale

Produced By Paul Righello
Held at Don Loving's Acoustic Designs in Scottsdale. If you have not had the chance to walk through Don's store you are in for a treat. Esoteric, Sonus Faber, and more top level brands.

There will be several demos of subwoofers in different rooms featuring use for two channel systems and home theater along with single versus multiple subs. JL Audio engineers will give talks on everything subwoofer related. How to integrate them 

into a system, crossover points, etc. 

https://www.adgroupaz.com/products/

NOPE-Cancelled/Postponed

June  27th Saturday-11-3pm -8600 E. Anderson Dr, Scottsdale

Produced By Jeff Kalina along with the entire SC cast.

SPEAKERFEST  II JUNE 30TH SATURDAY 11AM TO 3PM.

Standmount  Speakers  with  Shock and Awe!!

We have set our sights high this year. An Amazing Eight  speakers  

that may completely change your mind about whether size matters!

!!!!! EVENTS  BACK ON !!!!

July 29th Wednesday-7pm

FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH 803 E. CAMELBACK RD

Member Music. Your chance to find some new music to enjoy courtesy

of other members. Everyone is encouraged to bring one or two selections

they love and want to share with everyone. Always a fun night!

***Cancelled-August 26th, Wednesday- 7pm. Location TBD

Can you say headphones? All the latest brands along with the best equipment

to power them. Additionally we will demonstrate how hi-res sound is now as

portable as a device as small as a smart phone and very affordably.

NEW EVENT September 23rd 7pm

At Faith Lutheran Church 8th Street and Camelback.

Standmount Speaker Shootout!

We are assembling member owned models for comparison.  

Social distancing and masks will be required.