We just completed another great BAAS event. When we succeed, we combine listening pleasure and camaraderie with a “wisdom of the crowds” learning experience. We seem to have hit the right note(s) yesterday in Jason’s superb listening environment.
First, here are the DAC’s that we had on hand:
Weiss Medea - $16K MSRP (thanks Clive)
Theta Gen VIII […]
Click here for exclusive recordings from our Blue Coast Records event.
The tracks are available as both playable MP3 and downloadable 16/44.1 WAV. So most everyone should be able to play them with good fidelity.
You’ll find not just the mixed versions, but also the “raw mic” tracks from the various microphones that Cookie used.
Listening to these […]
Let me begin with a quotable quote:
Audiophile: “I just don’t understand how a power cord can matter.”
Well-known cable vendor: “The first thing to understand is that the improvement has nothing to do with power….”
Audiophile: “Huh?”
Yep - believe it or not - a lot of hype and misinformation flowed in Denver this weekend. But so did […]
Thanks to Keith, Chris, and Carl from Bay Area Audio.
Here are some images from the event (click on pic to zoom, then hit “Back” button to return):
If you haven’t been to a headphone get together, you’re missing something. They’re a hoot.
Head-fi.com, the very popular ‘phones web forum, is having their summer meeting in San Mateo.
Check it out!
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Mike from Teresonic played the following at our last event:
The Famous Sound of three blind mice vol 1 (TBM CD 9001)
The group called Bassiona Amorosa and the CD I played was “Live in Der Philharmonie Berlin” but they have some other very nice recordings as a quartet and as a sextet. Quite interesting. The web […]
First, let me thank Bay Area Audio (BAA) and Teresonic for their key roles in making the four-hour event a great success. BAAS looks forward to a continuing partnership with both.
I think that it’s safe to say that we covered the spectrum of single-driver options pretty well, from the affordable Horn Shoppe ‘Horn I’ ($800) […]
Our BAAS event this Saturday will focus on high-efficiency, single-driver speakers partnered with “flea-powered” amps.
For those who have not had the pleasure of listening to these minimalist systems, ‘first contact’ can be a revelation. To begin with, you’ve probably not heard speed and dynamics in this combination. And then there’s the coherence, which is pretty […]
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Here is the list of the music we played at the demo (I think we left out #2 on the second demo):
1. Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances non allegro (RR-96)
2. Rachmaninoff etudes-tableaux march (RR-96)
3. Strauss Festival Intrada (RR-112)
4. Yerba Buena Bounce: Tickle Toe (RR-109)
5. Tafelmusik: […]
Yesterday saw over 30 BAAS members auditioning the stunning new library of high resolution (24/176) recordings based on the Reference Recordings (RR) master tapes.
The ‘BAAS Sessions’ represent the first public demonstration of the recordings and the recommended hardware to play them (based on a PC Sound card). As such, they went beyond the various previews […]