Jan 8, 2022 1:30 PM

Our monthly Zoom meeting with the New York Audiophile Society will be on Saturday, January 8th, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern.

Per Mark Block, who belongs to both the New York group and our own NJAS, our guest will be:

The illustrious Martin Colloms, founder of HIFICRITIC magazine. He has written for many decades for Hi-Fi News (33 years), Stereophile, HiFi for Pleasure, Hi-Fi Choice and Hi-Fi Plus. We think Mr. Colloms should rightly be called “Mr. Hi-Fi.” He is also the author of the seminal book, High Performance Loudspeakers, originally published in 1977 and now in its seventh edition. He has written other books on computer-controlled and digital testing. Matin Colloms is a reviewer with unusually deep technical chops.

An engineer by training, Martin worked on speaker designs for Monitor Audio early in his career. After leaving Monitor Audio, he devoted himself to writing, eventually founding HIFICRITIC with Paul Messenger in 2010. The staff includes many of our favorite UK reviewers, including Peter Comeau, Stan Curtis, Ben Duncan, Andrew Everard, Tony Faulkner and others.

He writes,
`Music replay in the home is a privilege, hearing more of the music, more of the production and not least more of the musicianship is why I devote massive time and effort in the attempt to optimise audio systems.` During our Zoom, we’ll be discussing what to listen for when optimizing our own systems, including everything from frequency response to the somewhat more controversial concept of pace, rhythm and dynamics. We’ll also cover the interesting question of why LP playback is still popular in our digital age. And, of course, we’ll talk about hi-fi reviewing in general and HIFICRITIC in particular.


Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83211573663?pwd=b3ZzV3BCQ0NVakdwUmc5WWczTGxBQT09

Meeting ID: 832 1157 3663
Passcode: 869091


This is a joint meeting of The Audiophile Society, the NJ Audio Society and the Boston Audio Society. Guests from the Audio Syndrome, the Connecticut Audio Society, the Philadelphia Area Audio Group, the Atlanta Audio Society, the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society and the Houston Audio Society are welcome to attend. Zoom guidelines are at this link. The meeting will begin at 1:30 EST, with Martin’s presentation starting a little after 2:00. As usual, participants should “raise their hands” using the Zoom “Reactions” to ask questions after the main presentation.

Further research:

https://www.hificritic.com/colloms.html
https://www.hificritic.com
https://www.stereophile.com/reference/23/index.html
https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Loudspeakers-Optimising-Loudspeaker/dp/1118413539/