Meeting at Victor's house will be divided into 2 sessions. Saturday and Sunday. Limited to 20 attendees per day. You can only sign up for one of the sessions. We are meeting on the 4th weekend as Easter Sunday is the third weekend in April.
Meeting at Victor's house will be divided into 2 sessions. Saturday and Sunday. Limited to 20 attendees per day. You can only sign up for one of the sessions. We are meeting on the 4th weekend as Easter Sunday is the third weekend in April.
We finally returned to the rebuilt home of our host Chris with a large turnout.
Saturday evening event at The VPI House to avoid NFL playoff conflicts.
Main Room: Audiovector Trapeze speakers, VPI Model One Forever TT, Goldy cartridge, McIntosh electronics
Back room left: MC Audiotech speakers, VPI Avenger Statement TT, Shyla cartridge. Mark Conti talked about his speakers.
Our second meeting at Paul Bochner's audio establishment.
• amp: Gryphon Diablo 333 new high-end integrated amplifier designed and built in Denmark, MSRP $24,900
• speakers: Magico A5 MSRP $24,800
• source: DCF Bartok Apex DAC “$20,950 (DAC only) and $22,950 (with headphone amp)
Scott and Laura Bierfeldt, owners of Verdant Audio, hosted us in their house/showroom in Far Hills.
First time meeting at Dave's estate in scenic Newtown PA. Highlights were the Gamut and Backert electronics, VPI TT, Meitner Phono and especially his Joseph Audio Pearl Graphene speakers.
Tom Perazella hosted for the first time along with room correction DSP guru Richard Hollis, showcasing Tom's custom built speakers and the Danville dspNexus 2X8DSP control system.
Larry Borden hosted us along with Gary Koh at the VPI Dojo featuring new Genesis loudspeakers the Maestro and Minuet along with Heed amps.
We heard the top of the line Audiovector R8 speakers in Italan Burl Walnut finish ($77K) brought to us by our new member Anthony Chiarella. Vpi's Audio Research Amps and possibly some surprise electronics courtesy of Anthony. Smaller R3 speakers were upstairs. Joint meeting with NY--The Audiophile Society and some Philly guys showed up too.
Visit to Audiolab just across the Delaware River in Morrisville, PA. in a joint meeting with Philadelphia (PAAG) group.
Joint meeting with NY at VPI and featuring MC Audiotech speakers, Audio Research Electronics and Mark Conti. This is the stuff VPI had in their second room at CAF.
Big Summer BBQ at my place. New Ortofon Cadenza Black Cartridge mounted on a 3D tonearm.
Trip to Electronic Concepts (ECNY.NET) in Rochelle Park featuring Magico, DCS, Dagostino, Meridian and many other brands.
Chris had a lot of new gear for us to hear. Very nice basement man cave! Curse the skies if you weren't there!
VPI House featuring Rogue and McIntosh electronics. Tannoy, JBL and Lennart speakers. Grado Carts & headphones. New VPI Goldy Cartridge and Avenger Direct TT. Joint meeting with The Audiophile Society NY
Return to Charney Audio to hear his new Lumaca Jr speakers, powered by his 300B Monoblock Amplifiers.
VPI House featuring Greg Belman of Bache Audio speakers and Alex Chorine of Alexus Audio electronics.
Meeting with John Rutan and his staff at Audio Connection in Verona, NJ featuring Vandersteen speakers.
NJAS new member Cheng hosted us at his building in South Brunswick. Cheng has a company called Audion and he has built 2 speakers called MAGA1 and MAGA2 (Make Audio Great Again).
We gathered at the home of Kathy Sheppard, a friend of NJAS member Bill Galbraith who is the keyboardist of an excellent band named Curiosity Shop. They gave a live performance.
Laid back meeting at VPI featuring NJASer Mike K's Arion Orion speakers and a ton of other gear.
New-ish member Chris Dennison hosted his first meeting at his home in Piscataway.
Alon Wolf stationed in Magico's listening room at the factory with the mighty M9’s.
Karl-Heinz Fink from Essen, Germany. Karl-Heinz is “famous” for the speaker designs he’s done for a variety of manufacturers: Denon, Yamaha, Mission, Tannoy, Mordaunt-Short, Naim, Q Acoustics and Wharefdale. Karl-Heinz has recently launched a line of high-end speakers under the FinkTeam banner.
Peter Thomas, loudspeaker representative for BBC Radio in the 1970's, involved in the revision of the LS3/5a and focused his evaluation of speaker performance through controlled listening tests on Zoom.
Bob Katz, the great recording engineer from Chesky Records who currently runs the audiophile mastering studio, Digital Domain (digido.com) on Zoom.
Ken Kessler an American-born, UK-based journalist whose articles on hi-fi, watches, pens and cars have appeared in over 200 different magazines and newspapers in more than 20 countries on Zoom.
Peter Ledermann of Sound-Smith on Zoom. Peter is one of the best U.S. based phono cartridge designers and probably the best cartridge rebuilder/retipper in the world. He is also responsible for phono stages, phono accessories and bookshelf speakers.
Zoom meeting with Anthony Cordesman of The Absolute Sound and the National Security Council.
Zoom meeting with Mat and Harry Weisfeld. Topics included: new 14" tonearm and tonearm alignment discussion, Harry`s transfer/preservation of vintage reel to reel tapes to digital domain, Covid`s effect on the industry/dealers and VPI`s medical ventures, future audio shows, new Shyla cartridge and shooting the breeze with Harry unfiltered.
Back to Charney Audio to hear Brian's horn loaded loudspeakers amidst a national emergency.
NJAS and PAAG joint meeting at VPI House. Aaron Sherrick of Now Listen Hear had 2 systems:one with Joseph Audio Perspective 2 Graphene speakers featured and Jeff Joseph himself to demo. A second room featured the Fyne Audio F703 speakers from Scotland. Gordon Burwell of Burwell and Sons had their large horn speakers that retail for $80-100k. Raidho speakers that retail for $150k with new ModWright Gear. The VPI Vanquish Turntable system was also featured.
After a hiatus, we returned to bucolic Hockessin, Delaware, to hear Jerry's ever-evolving system.
Gary L. Koh, Chief Designer and CEO of Genesis Advanced Technologies brought some of his "unobtainium" stash of recordings, as well as test pressings of the direct-to-disc recordings that he made in Bernie Grundman's Studio. Equipment: VPI Avenger Reference turntable w/Ortofon A95 cartridge, or VPI HW-40 Direct Drive turntable w/van den Hull cartridge. Genesis Advanced phonostage preamplifier. Merrill Audio Christine linestage preamplifier & Element 116 monoblock amplifiers. Genesis Maestro loudspeakers.
Annual Summer BBQ. Our Special Guest was none other than Harry Weisfeld, founder of VPI.
Joint event with the Philadelphia Area Audio Group held at The Art of Sound on the banks of the Delaware in Lambertville. Representatives from AudioQuest, Audio Research, Aurender, Dynaudio, Focal, Primare and Sonus Faber presented their equipment for our listening pleasure. Additionally, there was a live jazz performance by The Eric Mintell Quartet covering the music of Dave Brubeck.
We got to hear Clayton's award winning system featuring a VPI Prime Signature TT with Benz LP cartridge, a Lampizator Level 4 DAC with MacBook Pro running Pure Music, Coincident Frankenstein 300B monoblocks, a Coincident Statement Phono, and the Coincident Statement Line Stage. MFSL One Step & UHQR LP shootout on tap (Abraxas, Bill Evans, Jimi, etc.).
First timer hosting this month for Victor W. and his ever evolving system anchored by his vintage Klipsch horns and new upstairs system, plus mini-BBQ out back.
Audio Video Synergy hosted in picturesque Clinton, NJ. A variety of sound and video gear on display. They also have monthly Friday night listening sessions open to the public.
The Weisfelds welcomed us to their brand new VPI house/showroom. With Pat Mattucci of HIfi Sales; Bill Poteet of Audio Technica; and Ofra and Elli Gershman from Gershman Acoustics. We also remembered the one year anniversary of the passing of Neal Patrone.
We're back to Blaine's who plans to get a lot of good food & drink (Green beer?) and play unforgettable performances on the stereo.
Howard invited us to his home in Gillette for the first time to hear his system. Howard and his wife designed the room with angled walls, a high ceiling, an extra reinforced floor and a dedicated electrical line.
Peter Mackay, VP of worldwide sales for Magico gave a presentation on the company and their speakers.
Our summer BBQ with vinyl guru Mr. Michael Fremer, of Stereophile and AnalogPlanet.com.
Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade discussion on the tweak items he manufactures and his thinking behind them.
Tom O'Brien, owner of the Digital Amplifier Company, hosted an audio EVENT in downtown Allentown, demonstrating plenty of Digital Amplifier Company electronics, in particular the new MEGAschino high power, high performance flagship Cherry Amplifier.
First time host Clayton Cowan had a system featuring a VPI Prime Signature turntable with Benz LP with about 50 hrs on a new stylus installed by Peter Lederman, a Lampizator Level 4 DAC with MacBook Pro running Pure Music, Coincident Frankenstein 300B monoblocks, a Coincident Statement Phono, and also have the Coincident Statement Line Stage with 10 days on it. Speakers were the Coincident Partial Eclipse. Also there were tweaks by Synergistic Research, and cables were a mixture of Coincident, Harmonic Tech, and an Audience USB.
A tour of a working custom vinyl record plant in Kenilworth, New Jersey with host and owner Leandro and complete with restored (not modernized) record printing machines. See www.stereodisk.com for more details.
A four-way system featuring restored/upgraded Maggies, digital room correction on all channels, restored Threshold amps, six dedicated electrical lines on three phase power in a 50x60 foot room.
A return to Distinctive Stereo with two rooms of gear, including the PS Audio Direct Stream Memory Player or Aurender N10 music server/streamer feeding the EMM Labs DAC2x. The Merrill Audio Christine preamp, Merrill Audio Veritas monoblock amps and German Physiks Borderland loudspeakers all in the main room. The Living Room system featured: Aurender A10 feeding a PS Audio Direct Stream DAC, or an Exogal Comet DAC and Wells Audio Innamorata amplifier on Vehement Audio Savant speakers with Zachary Bohannon of Vehement.
Phil Slepian brought his long awaited Sugarcube SC-2 by Sweetvinyl, an LP-to-digital click and pop reduction machine.
Our summer BBQ (hey, the summer ends September 20th!), with Tom Fine (son of Bob and Wilma Fine of Mercury Living Presence fame), discussing the Mercury Living Presence/Stereo recordings and his efforts to remaster many of them.
Room acoustic treatment demonstrations in the new basement listening area and crazy, crazy speakers that belong in a zoo.
Charney Audio hosted by Brian Charney himself and featuring most of his creations and workshop.
Featured was Alan Chambers' original GC amplifiers, and Fr. Richard's Bumblebee loudspeakers.
Alan demonstrated his new Magico S5 MkII loudspeakers, and, Al Mirabella brought along the Monaco SGM 2015 Music Server (with Roon and HQ Player) and the T A DAC 8 DSD. Christoph Zander, distributor for Aqua HiFi, was also there.
The Art of Sound hosted for the first time in their beautiful store. For more info, visit: http://theartofsoundllc.com/ Featuring Martin Logan and Sonus Faber loudspeakers, Devialet amps, recordings and "Systems". Guest speaker talked about his career in recording live venues.
Speakers featured were Eden Acoustics Tomei, and the German Physiks HRS-130. System included electronics by Eden Acoustics, EMM Labs, Merrill Audio, and the Aurender 10 music server/DAC with Larry Borden.
The latest VPI gear and various speakers, including Ohms, Kefs, JBLs and Rodgers at the VPI showcase home in Holmdel, with Matt Weisfeld hosting.
Our annual trek to bucolic Hockassin, Delaware. Featured was a new Aqua Hifi Formula DAC and the Antipodes DX2 server for Roon. Also, Jerry debuted a PS Audio BHK Signature preamp.
Member Paul Pomerantz hosted for the first time at his home in Bridgewater. Special guest Karl Tam of Vu Jade Audio presented his Vu Jade Phono preamp and DAC.
Summer BBQ to the sweet sounds of Crown tape decks, Dun-Levy Crown Prince speakers and live master tape recordings.
Alex featured his B&W 802D speakers, powered by Bryston 4Bsst and modded Mr. Liang LS 845-3 amps, Yamaha C-2x preamp, DIY streamer for music file playback, Oppo DV-980h disc player, and Pioneer PL-L1 'table w/ Dynavector 20x2 cartridge.
Sunil presented MAD (My Audio Design) speakers, powered by Allnico electronics. Digital sources from Melco or Lumin, cabling by Wywires. A headphone station was also available.
Surround Sound meeting with special guest Bob Witrak of High Definition Tape Transfers.
Koby Koranteng of HiFI Logic on the Bespoke Audio Preamp and the Bespoke crew from Hastings, England via Skype!
Classe amps, B&W Loudspeakers and McIntosh gear with Fernando Zorrilla, of Cloud 9 Smarthome.
Member Ivan Berger, long-time audio journalist, spoke about some of his experiences over decades of involvement in the industry.
Pipedreams 15 with Reference 21 subwoofer & crossovers, and Backert Labs Rhythm 1.1 preamp.
Four whole rooms of equipment, w/ many, many speakers hand-built by Andrej himself.
PS Audio Direct Stream DAC, Chord Hugo and Bricasti M1 DAC shootout--and another shootout between two different preamps--hosted by Jerry Powell.
Significantly modified Gander System with Gary Anderson and demos of high-res audio files.
Organ demonstration and theater tour with the Friends of the Loew's and the Garden State Theater Organ Society. Cross-club meeting with NY, CT and Philly.
The theme for this meeting was new and unfamiliar music. Linkwitz-Riley Lab Orion, a 3-way, active dipole speaker system built by Odo. Odo had also revised the crossover in his Parallel Audio system for lowered distortion.
Rives Audio rep, Tom Curnin from Bravo A/V, presentation on Rives room design. Showcasing Brian's dream room.
Hi-Def DSD and DXD recordings with Robert Witrak of High Definition Tape Transfers.com and Bob Sellman of dtrmusic.com. Hi-Res DSD DACS from Al Mirabella, Alan Hyman and Merrill W.
Five separate rooms of homemade speaker systems, by Andrej, including a basement home theater system.
Two whole systems of Merrill Audio products with Merrill W. and Dave Lalin of Audio Doctor, Jersey City, with a Vega-ESS DAC. Main system featuring Sander Sounds Systems 10c Electrostatics Speakers.
Leon demonstrated his Rockport Technologies Procryn speakers along with his Krell front end and Meridian CD player. Also both the Astrell&Kern AK100 digital player AND Igor's new headphone amp, the Bravissimo, on demo.
Music First passive pre-amplifiers with the product designer and Koby Koranteng of HiFi Logic (www.hifilogic.com).
VPI Industries in Cliffwood, NJ. Demo of the new Traveler table and factory tour.
Krell amps and low cost cable shoot-out from DH Labs, Luminous Audio and WireWorld.