| Always on the third
Sunday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Meetings
start at 2 pm.
You may also want to see
Meeting Topics for more information
and updates.
2005
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January
16
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CAS
member Larry
Musial demoed
a number of products from Chicago-based Bizzy
Bee Tube Audio Design (Paul Grzybek).
The demo system consisted of: modified
Cayin TA-30 35-watt tube integrated amp, a new beta version of a
Bizzy Bee Tube Audio Design 35-watt tube amplifier, a TAD-150 remote
control tube preamp, a Marantz CD-67SE modded with a new analog
section by OGRE Systems, Frank Putnam's modified Denon turntable
with Micro Seiki MA-505 tonearm & Grado G15 cartridge, and Larry's
highly modified industrial Klipsch La Scala horn speakers augmented
with a DIY subwoofer with 2 12" Eminence drivers. |
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February
20
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Ridge
Street Audio demonstrated their Sason
Ltd. Granite loudspeakers and reference Poiema!! line of
cables. |
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March
20
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Music
Direct demoed a system of their products for both analog
and digital. The system consisted of Legacy Victoria LE speakers,
an Avid Acutus turntable with Benz Micro Ruby 2 cartridge, mounted
on a Shure SME Series V tonearm, an EAR 834P Deluxe tube phono stage,
a Marantz DV-9500 universal SACD player, a PS Audio Edge G-2 preamp,
PS Audio Edge GCA 100 Gain Cell amplifier, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power
Conditioner, and Solidsteel speaker and audio stands. This allowed
us to do many vinyl-to-SACD comparisons. |
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April
17
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Essential
Audio of Barrington sponsored the meeting that had Ralph
Karsten of Atma-sphere
revisiting us again! The demo system consisted of: Atma-Sphere MP-3
preamp, MA-1 MkII.3 OTL tube amps (140 watt monoblocks), Atma-Sphere-modified
Empire 208 turntable with TriPlanar tonearm, G&D Transforms
UTP-1 CD transport, Entec Number Cruncher D/A converter, ProAc Response
5 speakers, Creative Cable Concepts & TG Audio cabling &
line conditioning. |
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May
15
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Brian
Bienfang & Rick
Elsworth from Signature
Tech in Milwaukee area presented their lines of speakers
and electronics. The system consisted of the following: a SRp-7g
tube pre-amp, SRa-9m 200 watt mono block amplifiers (FET front end
with tube outputs), a SRd-25 vacuum tube CD player, an EC-1 electronic
crossover, a BELLES 350 A reference sub-amp, & SRM-5.1 &
SRM-.7 loudspeakers. |
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June
26 (4th Sunday)
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Joe Jurzec
of Jam
'n Audio a member & previous cohost at the meetings
of SP Technologies
speakers and Audiopoints
products, demonstrated a system of his latest products consisting
of: Dynamic Audio One speakers from Daedalus
Audio, Reference 8 100 watt monoblocks from NuForce,
SWL 9.0SE linestage from Modwright,
Denon 3910 with Ultimate
Truth Mods, a Mark Levinson No. 39 CD player for comparison,
Empirical Design
Interconnects and Speaker Cable, SP-3 and SP-004 Sistrum racks/platforms
from Star Sound Technologies.
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July
17
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Meeting was at the home
of Rick Berta in Orland Park,
IL. 2 high-efficiency speaker systems were demoed. The first consisted
of a Lowther driver with a circular horn with a large bass bin
off to the side and used focal woofers in a horn loaded arrangement.
The other setup combined the 15" Lambda low frequency driver
crossed over low at 50 Hz, with an 8" French design PHY-HP
extended range driver and Fostex
tweeters crossed over at a high range (about 8kHz). This system
was also actively biamped. Both systems were driven by custom-built
300B amps from Rick's friend Minh from Canada. The digital player
was a modified Denon 3910 by Exemplar
Audio. See the July
newsletter for more meeting details.
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August
21
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Meeting at the home of
Brian Richardson in Arlington
Heights, IL. A multi-channel all-tube Magnepan SACD setup was demoed.
The player was a Stan Warren modified Philips SACD-1000. See the
August newsletter for
details. |
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September
18
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John
Van Leishout of Van
L Speakerworks will be presenting the latest revision of
his Quartet speaker system. It features a unique crossfeed design
that uses an additional speaker wire between the two speakers to
capture ambience. The speaker has been through a number of design
changes and tweaks by John over the years. The associated electronics
will include a Cary tube amp, Cary upsampling CD player and a custom
octal tube line stage. |
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October
16
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ZU
Cables, who are getting recognition for their speakers will
be demonstrating their Definition 1.5 & Druid
speaker models, as well as
their cables. The Definition 1.5, the top of the line, received
a very favorable review in the August 2005 online edition of 6moons
Audio. |
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November
20
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Jon
Verhalen from Lowther
America demoed the Alerion speakers with their new matching
subwoofer, the Basszilla Platinum edition. The demo system consisted
of Sony ES9000 with Level 4 Vacuum State Modifications, Pass Labs
X1 Pre-Amp, First Watt
(Nelson Pass) Aleph J Amp, Jena Labs Cables.
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December
11 (2nd
Sunday)
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Holiday meeting with Song
Audio demoing Loth-X speakers. |
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