Weekly Zoom Friday Night Zoom Meeting
Weekly Audiophile Chat
Friday Night @ 7pm AZ Time
Members, check your calendars for details
open to ALL - non members are welcome too !
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Due to unforeseen issues the event for June 26th, 2025
HAS BEEN CANCELLED !
This event will be rescheduled for later this year.
The club apologizes for the short notice and inconvenience.
Achieving Studio-Quality Sound in Your Listening Room
(Without Breaking the Bank)
Join fellow club and Steering Committee member David Das as he guides you through the process of attaining exceptional sound quality in your listening space without the hefty price tag. This engaging event will include a live demonstration showcasing the dramatic impact of room correction.
It's widely recognized that your listening room plays a pivotal role in the overall audio experience, often more so than individual components or even loudspeakers. While furnishings and acoustic treatments can offer some assistance, achieving a truly smooth bass response below approximately 200 Hz typically requires extensive and often impractical solutions like massive bass traps.
Interestingly, recording and mastering engineers face similar challenges. While they may have more flexibility in implementing physical treatments, they've increasingly turned to sophisticated digital signal processing (DSP) over the past decade to optimize the frequency and phase response of their studio monitors. To truly appreciate our music as the artists and engineers intended, free from the coloration of our listening rooms, a similar approach is essential.
Fortunately, recent technological advancements have made sophisticated DSP accessible for home audio systems. The once prohibitive costs of processing power have plummeted, and with the prevalence of digital music sources, implementing advanced DSP is now both affordable (under $150 for necessary hardware) and remarkably compact.
Perhaps you've tried automated room correction systems like Dirac Live, Audyssey, or YPAO and found their results less than ideal for dedicated two-channel listening. While these solutions simplify setup and can even out frequency response, they often compromise accuracy in the crucial time domain. Don't be discouraged! David will share his journey in overcoming these limitations in his own system using a cost-effective yet cutting-edge solution.
If you've ever aspired to achieve studio-quality sound within the comfort of your listening room, this is an event you won't want to miss!
Playback System for Demonstration:
- Loudspeakers: Neumann KH150 active monitors with internal DAC
- Streaming Transport: iFi Audio ZEN Stream with S/PDIF output
- Streaming Software: Roon, FIR filters applied using Roon's convolution engine
- Streaming Service: Qobuz
The event is hosted at Faith Lutheran Church | 801 East Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85014 | The meeting will start @ 7 PM
The Final loudspeaker event scheduled for June 14th (Saturday) at Faith Lutheran Church will NOT occur due to medical issues concerning the owner. The club looks forward to that event being rescheduled later this year, apologies in advance.