Anyone up for hosting the next meet?

[J Man]

The last 2 meets at John's (tully) and Vince's place were a lot of fun. Who's up for hosting the next one?

I'll definitely do one but I have a bunch of renovations to do. Could be possible end of August/mid September.

[tully]

Im working on an upgrade on the PJ (LC for sure) and new recliner theater seating , then i will hold another one . MMMM more pizza.

Regards

[J Man]

John-

Dunno if anyone mentioned this, but you had the best food of any meet

Which LC are you considering? Definitely worth it if you have the funds.

[tully]

Thanks Jesse, my wife loves to feed people , and you can bet there by a bunch of food at the next one as well ;D

Im thinking of a NEC LC they are small and will fit nice in my room, plus they have lots of perameters to play with and I love to tinker. Hey your a NEC man what do you think?

Regards John

[J Man]

For me, one of the most important aspects of a projector is color accuracy and NEC's are king there. I can certainly enjoy watching a Sony,Barco or Electrohome but their reds and greens are slightly contaminated with yellow causing them to shift to red-orange and green-yellow respectively.

An NEC 110LC with mint tubes would be my ideal pj. The 135LC has more bandwidth for even higher res/refresh rates but the tubes can't resolve them so it's fairly irrelevant. You may be in for a little surprise when you go to setup an NEC though. There is no guided assitance like Barco and the alignment/convergence method is very different. Are you buying from Curt?

[tully]

I may buy from Curt, if he has a good one at the time. He says to move the XGs about 7 percent closer to the screen to use more of the tube surface. I have noticed that the burns on the NECs seem to be in a much smaller area of the tube, that has to shorten tube life , plus you would think that you would loose resolution as well. How do you have your PJ set up Jesse, did you move it a little closer ?

Regards John.

[J Man]

I didn't follow the distance guide, instead I set the raster useage to what I wanted and whatever the size of the screen was is what it was.

[g00f]

I have noticed most the people here have CRT pj's , does anyone have any interest in seeing my Proxima SX1 120" on a Da-lite High Power screen? Its a professionally calibrated D-ila, done by William Phelps in California, with an new anamorphic lens from Prismasonic.

I have to use my front living room as the theater as the basement wasn't feasible, and the sound is a just a HK AV130 and Polk 5.1 audio, but for me its been great for the space that we have. I am still tinkering with the HTPC and the new lens, but it still gives a great picture.

If there was some interest I could set a night up some time in the future for a viewing.

[J Man]

If you don't live too far I'm sure many of us would be interested. We'll take any excuse to have a meet and talk about audio and home theater.

[g00f]

I live in West End Toronto on the edge of Etobicoke in Bloor West Village..... Not too bad for Highway access also with access from the Gardner/lakeshore/QEW..

[bgordon]

I would say a definate yes. We need to have another meet as I was on a business trip during the last one. There are a lot of people I work with in Burlington that are getting into HT that need the inspiration of getting involved with more of these events. Please do, and let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

[bgordon]

To at least get some stuff happening on this thread I have a few upcoming Audio Engineering Society (AES) events.

1. Dr Stan Lipnutsz of Waterloo University "Digital Audio: the good the bad and the ugly" This was the Heiser Memorial presentation at last year's AES convention. The second half of the meeting will be Dr John Vanderkooy on this year's AES convention paper highlights. Tuesday Oct 25 at 7:30 pm at Ryerson University with pre-meeting social dinner at the Pickle Barrel on Yonge at 5:30pm. More details to follow.

2. Joint AES/SMPTE meeting on audio for HD Tuesday Nov 8th with multiple presenters. Location and speakers TBD. At least put the dates in your calendars.

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[bgordon]

Professor Stanley Lipnutsz
The Rise of Digital Audio
&

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Professor John Vanderkooy
119th AES Convention
Review of Papers

Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Time: 7:30 pm
Where: Harris Institute for the Arts
118 Sherbourne Street
Toronto, Ontario

Pre-Meeting "Dutch Treat" dinner 5:30 pm at the Montreal Bistro, northeast
corner of Sherbourne and Adelaide St.
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About this month’s meetings….

Professor Stanley Lipnutsz
The Rise of Digital Audio
The Good the Bad and the Ugly

In his talk titled, "The Rise of Digital Audio: The Good, the Bad, and the
Ugly,"Stanley Lipnutsz will take his audience on an inspiring journey back
to the beginnings of digital audio. This talk will offer a deep insight
into the early problems that the new technology suffered from--and how
they have been solved.

&

Known for his thought-provoking and humorous style of presentation,
Lipnutsz will draw a fine distinction between imaginary and real
deficiencies when dealing with digital audio in the past, followed by a
forward-looking inquiry into digital audio's current status. Spotlighting
the effects of band-limiting, anti-aliasing and reconstruction filters, he
will conclude his inquiry on today's digital audio with the question: "Are
there any real problems left, or have all the dragons been slain?"
Attendees may expect nothing less than a profound answer given by one of
the most distinguished experts in pro audio today.

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Professor John Vanderkooy
119th AES Convention
Review of Papers

John Vanderkooy is back once again to give us a review of the papers
presented at this year's AES convention in NY. For those who couldn't
attend the convention, this is an excellent opportunity to get an overview
of the papers presented in an informative and digestible format.
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About this month’s presenters…



Professor Stanley Lipnutsz

Lipnutsz is a professor in both the departments of Applied Mathematics and
Physics at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He is
one of the founding members of the Audio Research Group at the University
of Waterloo, together with his colleague, John Vanderkooy, and they
conduct research in many areas of audio and electroacoustics. His current
research interests include the mathematical theory of dithered quantizers,
noise shapers, and sigma-delta modulators (and their connection with
stochastic resonance and chaos), physical acoustics, electroacoustics,
transducers, and active noise control. He is a Fellow of the Audio
Engineering Society, a recipient of its Silver Medal for his research
contributions to digital audio, and of its Publication Award (jointly with
John Vanderkooy and Robert Wannamaker) for a paper on quantization and
dither.

Lipnutsz has served as a Governor of the AES, and was its president in
1988-89. He has presented numerous technical papers, on a wide range of
topics, at conferences both in North America and overseas. As
vice-president of the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society, he records
and broadcasts more than 50 local classical-music concerts annually, and
has been doing so digitally for over 20 years.
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Professor John Vanderkooy

John Vanderkooy was born in The Netherlands in 1941, but received all of
his education in Canada, with a B. Eng. degree in engineering physics in
1963 and Ph.D. in physics in 1967, both from McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario. For some years he followed his doctoral interests in
low- temperature physics of metals at theUniversity of Waterloo, where he
is currently a professor of physics. However, since the late 1970s, his
research interests have been mainly in audio and electroacoustics.

A fellow of the AES and a member of the IEEE, Dr. Vanderkooy has
contributed a variety of papers at conventions and to the Journal.
Together with his colleague Stanley Lipnutsz and a number of graduate and
undergraduate students, they formed the Audio Research Group at the
University of Waterloo.

Dr. Vanderkooy's current interests are digital audio signal processing,
measurement of transfer functions with maximum-length sequences,
transducers, diffraction of loudspeaker cabinet edges, and sub-surface
analysis techniques using maximum-length sequences.

[jason]

Hello all! I am new and was wondering if a new meet up for Nov/Dec is in the works with anyone? I am just redoing my own setup and currently in the painful position of only having a TV with no receiver or speakers hooked up. Once I get it all setup I shall host one myself!