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	<title>BAASnotes.com - Bay Area Audiophile Society</title>
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		<title>Our Desert Island LPs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long ago, we selected and posted our &#8220;desert island digital&#8221; (CDs).
Now let&#8217;s take a crack at vinyl!
Add a comment containing your 10-20 most cherished LPs. Try to include enough info that members can reach out and buy a copy.
I&#8217;m newly &#8220;reborn&#8221; to vinyl, but I&#8217;ll begin anyway:

Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
S&#38;G, Concert in Central Park
G. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2010/02/23/desert-island-lps/</link>
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		<title>A Tiny (Audiophile) History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened across an insightful rendition of audiophile history from wax to SACD.
Not much new here (the text was last revised in 2005), but the treatment of the subject is both well-considered and insightful. Kudos to Lynn Olson for yet another contribution to our hobby.
This piece complements Perfecting Sound Forever and the other fine books [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2010/02/23/a-tiny-audiophile-history/</link>
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		<title>Amplifier Group to Meet in San Francisco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where:  Randall Museum (http://www.randallmuseum.org/)
When:  Saturday, 6 February, 1:00PM to 5:00PM
What:  A V-TUG meeting
Why:  To listen to and compare a new solid state amp by Alex to several new vacuum tube amps by Ori.  Rick has new speaker cables for audition.  This will be a not to be missed meeting.
Please forward this email to anyone you think may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2010/02/02/amp-group-to-meet-in-sf/</link>
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		<title>Keeping up with audiophile happenings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daily Audiophile (link) features a very nice set of blog and audio-website links. (The site was down for months, but is now back &#8211; better than ever.)
A similar, if less structured, site is High End Matters (link).
So these two join Stereophile, Absolute Sound, and the various blogs and forums as places to go to keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2010/02/02/keeping-up-with-audiophile-happenings/</link>
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		<title>Cool little horns for audiophiles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You just gotta love these little babies!
So stylish Relatively inexpensive ($1700/pr) too.
I&#8217;ll try to get a pair for a future BAAS event. In the meantime, check them out here..
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		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2010/02/02/cool-little-horns-for-audiophiles/</link>
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		<title>Brian Eno on Music and Whale Blubber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Guardian has a very interesting interview with Brian Eno.
The far-ranging discussion presents some novel views on music and its relation to our commercial and cultural worlds.
Thanks, Aaron, for pointing this one out!
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		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2010/01/17/brian-eno-on-music-and-whale-blubber/</link>
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		<title>Spiral Groove Turntable Impresses Digital Audiophile(s)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BAAS membership reflects the current trends of audiophiles worldwide. As such, the majority (including myself) listen to digital these days. So it was interesting to see how our first &#8220;analog event&#8221; in several years would be received.
About 30 BAAS members gathered at Jason Victor Serinus&#8217; home yesterday to listen to the latest in analog source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2009/12/06/spiral-groove-turntable-impresses-digital-audiophiles/</link>
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		<title>The Beatles Get &#8220;BlueBeaten”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The intrepid entrepreneur behind the BlueBeat web site just lost his court case.
[The web site is down at the time of writing.]

You see, he had been using what he called “psycho-acoustic simulation” to create recordings that sound identical to those of the Fab Four. The tale is told in excruciating detail by the good folks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2009/11/19/the-beatles-meet-psycho-acoustic-simulation/</link>
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		<title>The Death of the Audiophile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that our hobby and its supporting industry are not exactly booming. The the current recession has been particularly devastating.
A key challenge facing the industry is the lack of interest by younger adults, the new generation of listeners and buyers.
The latest CEpro/Electronics House survey of 30-something men drives this reality home.  (Be sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2009/10/28/the-death-of-the-audiophile/</link>
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		<title>Digital Audio Sources Compared; Playback Designs Shines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, BAAS members were treated to state-of-the-art digital courtesy of local vendor Playback Designs.
Indeed, one of the distinct highlights of the event was hearing from Playback founder and chief designer, Andreas Koch, who is an icon in digital audio innovation.
The Playback MPS-5 made sweet music, regardless of digital source &#8211; and we tried several.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baasnotes.com/blog/2009/10/28/digital-audio-sourves-compared-playback-designs-shines/</link>
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