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RVSP required to attend this meeting. Please contact Juan Ayllon for directions and information:
 
Phone:  (847) 393-5591.
Email:  jircc01@gmail.com
 
RSVP  There is limited parking on the driveway or on the east side of the street out front.  We are located at the top of the hill at the rear of a shared driveway. Questions? Send a message or call Juan.

MEETING NOTICE 
Sunday, March 25th, 2018

2:00-5:00 PM


MARCH, 2018 MEETING: Our member Juan Ayllon will be hosting this month's Chicago Audio Society meeting on Sunday, March 25th from 2:00 to 5 PM.  Juan has an audio review blog: www.prairieaudiomancave.com and has received a number of interesting products to review and share with us including the latest VPI Prime Signature Table/Arm, VPI Viper phono stage, and Cypher Labs Prautes Headphone Amp

There will be two listening spaces.  Downstairs in the man cave will feature the following:
 
  • VPI Prime Signature turntable/arm (setup by Holm Audio)
  • Ortofon MC Quintet Black S phono cartridge
  • VPI Viper phono stage
  • Lampizator DSD Komputer music server
  • Lampizator Lite 7 DAC (modified internally with chokes, Mundorf MCaps EVO Silver/Gold capacitors, etc.) with the WK Audio "TheOne" prototype power cable
  • PS Audio BHK preamplifier
  • Odyssey Khartago Extreme amplifier
  • Straight Wire SC Pro Special speaker cables
  • Von Schweikert VR-5 HSE speakers
  • Hsu Research ULS-15 Mk2 subwoofer
  • Panamax M5300-EX Outlet Power Conditioner
       
On the main floor, there will be a headphone listening station, featuring the following:
  • Sennheiser 800S headphones
  • Audeze headphones 
  • Audio Arts HPX-1SE headphone cables
  • Cypher Labs Prautes Headphone amplifier/preamp
  • Pioneer Elite DV-45a SACD player      

Bring some vinyl to play in the man cave or CDs to play on the headphone station!
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VPI Prime Signature turntable/arm
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Odyssey Khartago Extreme amplifier
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PS Audio BHK preamplifier
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  • Lampizator DSD Komputer music server

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​Lampizator
​Lite 7 DAC
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     Pioneer Elite
     DV-45a SACD
​          player
Hsu Research
​ULS-15 Mk2
​subwoofer
Sennheiser
800S
​headphones
    Cypher Labs
Prautes Headphone
​ amplifier/preamp

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