Sep 19, 2021 1:30 PM

Monthly NY Audiophile Society Meeting:
Sunday, September 19th, 2021 at 1:30 PM Eastern

The Audiophile Society will conduct this meeting anywhere you want to be.

After a late summer hiatus, we’re starting up the Zoom meetings again. This month we’re pleased to announce that one of the U.K.’s preeminent speaker designers, Derek Hughes, will be our guest. Derek started his career in the 1970s at the BBC, where he worked in the audio and video engineering departments until moving over to Spendor to help his parents. (Derek is the son of Spencer and Dorothy Hughes, founders of Spendor.) After Spencer’s untimely death in 1983, Derek took over as Technical Director, managing the company with his mother for over 25 years. In 2004 he started Derek Hughes Audio Services, where he created updated version of the revered BBC LS3/5a & LS3/6 for Stirling Broadcast and the LS3/5, LS3/5a, LS5/8, LS5/9 and LS5/5 loudspeakers for Graham Audio. He also worked with Graham Audio to produce a high-power, high-quality music & effects loudspeaker system for the Royal Opera House in London. Derek will be explaining some of the breakthrough design tricks that made BBC speakers so neutral in general, unequaled in reproducing the human voice, and revered by audiophiles for 40 years.

As you might have heard, Paul Pomerantz is undergoing chemotherapy this month. He’d love to hear from friends, so if you’d like to shoot the sh*t with him, we can pass along his phone number. Allen Edelstein will take over co-host duties for this meeting.

Time: Sep 19, 2021 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada). Derek will join us at 2:00.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89096417277?pwd=QkEvLzBNcmlMYkdBaXlLNkhTS0FwUT09

Meeting ID: 890 9641 7277
Passcode: 747728

This is a joint meeting of The Audiophile Society and the NJ Audio Society, with Allen Edelstein and Mark Block acting as co-hosts on the Zoom. Guests from the Audio Syndrome, the Connecticut Audio Society, the Philadelphia Area Audio Group, the Boston Audio Society and others are welcome to attend as guests. Zoom guidelines are at this link. The meeting will begin at 1:30, with Derek’s Q&A starting at 2:00 PM. After the initial chat, Mark and Allen will lead the discussion. As usual, members should “raise their hands” using the Zoom “Reactions” to ask questions.

Further research:

http://www.derekhughes.co.uk

https://vimeo.com/90453529