Dan D'Agostino Live at his Factory in Cave Creek

The most highly anticipated Club Meeting is now set for 2021. Dan enjoys a  good bottle of red wine so if the mood strikes you please bring such a thank you gift.

Dan's wife Petra and their family  will put on a show to please everyone.

**Open to members only who RSVP. Please Send to Jeffkalina1@gmail.com by 4/21.**

No name is more closely associated with high-end audio amplifiers than that of Dan D’Agostino. During his career of more than 35 years, D’Agostino pioneered countless advances in the design of amplifiers, preamplifiers, CD players, and surround-sound processors. He is known as the audio industry’s most passionate promoter of high-quality, high-powered amplification. Makers of the world’s finest loudspeakers rely on D’Agostino-designed amplifiers for their most important demonstrations.

Jim Salk is a Custom Speaker builder who products represent a higher value

than most companies. Why? He does not use a 4 or 5 x factor when pricing

his speakers.  One look will and one listen should convince you. 

Jim is also a wonderful gentleman to meet and do business with.

Proudly Made in the USA.

See why so many people rave about him and his products!

Topic: Interview with Salk

Time: Jun 23, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona

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January = Merrill Audio-ZOOM

February = GIK Acoustics -ZOOM

March = Anne Roos live stream on the 31st at 7pm.

April = Dan D'Agostino Wednesday April 28th 6:00pm -LIVE in Cave Creek!

May = DIY Fest hosted Joe G. on the 26th- Live at the Faith Lutheran Church 

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June = Interview with Jim Salk of Salk Sound. Date ZOOM TBD

July = Member Music Night on the 28th  -LIVE TBD

August = Streaming Event

Sept = Room Correction

Oct = Steve B's Home Theater LIVE AT Steves

Nov/Dec = Club Swap Meet LIVE TBD

Topic: Interview with Dr. C of Audeze

Time: Apr 14, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona

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Enjoy harpist Anne Roos as she performs music that might not be expected on the Celtic harp! She performed on the 2015 Grammy® Award Winning New Age Album, her music has flown around the world in American Airline’s inflight music service, and she has appeared on countless podcasts, radio programs, and TV shows in her 30 years of playing. She’ll entertain us with a special performance program just for our membership. Find out more about Anne at HarpistAnneRoos.com. 

GIK Acoustics not only offers quality, patented, Eco-friendly products but we also provide customers with custom acoustical advice as well as helpful educational posts and acoustic articles. We take a holistic approach in helping customers understand the acoustical issues in their space and then present a practical approach to addressing the issues.

Audiophiles can spend a small fortune on speakers and equipment in search of the perfect sound, but without the proper room set up and treatment even the very best audio equipment wont give you a satisfying listening experience. If you are lucky enough to have a dedicated listening room, you can prioritize audio performance and set the room up around the audio system, but even in shared listening spaces we can often improve things with good setup tweaks and basic treatments.

Topic: GIK Presentation

Time: Feb 24, 2021 06:00 PM Arizona

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Come find out what all the raves are about. Merrill  Wettasinghe owner, developer has brought something very special to the market. 

Merrill Wettasinghe is the principal and founder of Merrill Audio. Merrill, though an engineer by education and profession, studied piano from an early age and continues to play as a beloved pastime. Merrill was building components, aged 10. Long ago he entered entered the ‘twilight zone’ of advanced electronics, where magic can happen and things are hard to explain. Merrill wonders about the word ‘audiophile’. What does it mean? Does it mean a love of sound, or a love of music? Perhaps it is both, but the love of music wins, every time.

Because Merrill is a pianist he understands certain things about how music happens ? particularly how important speed is. Musicians are pretty fast, they have lightning reflexes. They have to because the notes in the score don’t account for the time it takes to get between them on an actual physical instrument. Composers create seamless things. Musicians have to express that seamlessness in physical space, with a physical instrument, that has distances to cover. Musicians learn to think with the spine, the small muscles, the body intelligence.

What happens when the musician, the audiophile and the advanced engineer meet in the same person? Something special ? audio reproduction devices that reveal the beating heart and soul of musical performance. This is Merrill Audio. The vision of true musicality, its depth, its subtlety and nuance, its micro-gradations of refinement and taste. Its emotive power and joy.

Merrill has a BSEE and a MBA, has worked for Fortune 100 companies as well as many startups, including a few that he started himself. Merrill is bringing 30 plus years of experience in research, marketing, global sales and management to the brand. Merrill Audio is here to stay.

At Merrill Audio our philosophy is that audio components at the very high end must offer true value. They must provide something that simply cannot be achieved without the countless hours, years, of research and development we bring to their evolution. Cannot be achieved without the most refined of insights into the dynamics of musical expression, and cannot be delivered without world class engineering expertise. We are offering you unique experiences, emotional connection. We want to give you a window into the world of fine musical expression that is, otherwise, unavailable, or is very rare in audio.

We want you to spend hours re-discovering your music collection, whether it be vinyl or more recent formats. We want you to stay up all night. We want to bring you the power and intimacy of art in music, unforgettably. For you to be inviting your friends around to hear this thing. We want you to be pushing those friends out of the door in the small hours, because they simply won’t leave! We aim to astonish.

Topic: Merrill Audio Advanced Technology Labs
Time: Jan 20, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona


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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!!

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

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