West of Scotland Hi-Fi Club
2008-2009 season
West of Scotland Hi-Fi Club2008-2009 season
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| Laser Audio Visit29th Sept 2000Our visit to Laser Audio was indeed a memorable one, and a very packed
evening! Firstly we were met by our host Neil Menzies Bill
Cochrane Before the actual audio visual demonstration, he stripped
down one of the speakers to show the component
parts, and how easy it was to add extra We were given an Audio/Visual demonstration of the speakers after the lecture, and I must say that for Audio visual use, they were impressive indeed, although lacking any bass (this was made up for with a sub bass unit!). The units were physically unobtrusive and functioned well. Later Neil led us into a different listening room
for another demo. This time it
was to hear a range of CDs made in a rather unusual old fashioned way. They were
all recorded with ONE microphone, with each artist physically moving near the
axis of the mic to record his or her piece. This eliminates the need for
elaborate audio processing which many say "distorts" the final
product. The
producer of these CD's, Peter Heywood, gave a very interesting chat about how and
why these speciality CD Gordon then gave us all an information sheet titled "Where are they now?" This was a humorous insight to past British Hi-Fi companies. I hope to include this on a Web page soon. The evening finished off via the "Wheatsheaf" pub followed by a curry in the "Jewel in the Crown" restaurant at the top of Kilmarnock. (Sorry, no pictures Gordon Macdonald ) A really GREAT evening and one of the best I can remember for a long time.
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Copyright Alistair Biggar
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who
welcomed eight of us with a hot coffee (very nice). Then we were ushered in
two groups to hear a demonstration of Mission Audio's new flat speakers.
gave
an in depth talk about the construction of Mission Audio's new flat speaker
system, the fs2™ which was developed by NXT Technology. (Hear a
clip of the lecture 
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were made, and gave us some extremely good examples played on Ruark speakers
which showed up any deficiencies in the recordings. (Well! almost!). The
recordings do sound a LOT better when heard on BBC reference monitor speakers in
an acoustically controlled environment, as Peter kindly gave me one of his CDs for
testing. There was a CD that was played on the evening which was of a
folk/country group recorded at the Dean Castle, and I must say, that knowing how
it was done - using DI straight from the PA system in certain cases, it sounded
extremely good. The West of Scotland Hi-Fi Club is hoping to get involved in
perhaps making one of these CDs in the future as a one off, and our Chairman,
Gordon will be working out something.