Phoenix, AZ

The June meeting of the Arizona Audio Video Club will feature David Stipes. David is a 2x Emmy Award winning visual effects specialist, who will discuss several aspects of the visual effects field in the motion picture industry. Topics will include challenges of modern visual effects, favorite visual effects movie scenes and why, bullet time effect, miniatures vs CGI, CGI body modification and makeup, facial capture and retro-reflective technologies, matte painting forced perspectives along with video presentations and more. There will be time for questions and answers. Refreshments will be served.

The meeting will be held at 7 pm on Wednesday, 6/25, at the Arizona Art Institute of Phoenix, 2233 W. Dunlap Ave, Room 300.

This month’s AZ Audio Video Club meeting will feature a presentation by Dan D’Agostino, one of the legends of modern high-end audio and founder/chief engineer of Krell Industries. Dan will demonstrate and discuss some of his latest equipment, the Momentum Amplifier and Momentum Preamplifier from Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems. More info available at dagostinoinc dot com

Guests are invited and encouraged to attend. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Meeting Details
Date: July 30th, 2014
Time: 7:00PM to roughly 9:30PM
Location: Phoenix Airport Marriott - 1101 N. 44th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85008

The club’s website can be found at azavclub dot org

The Arizona Audio Video Club will meet at 7 pm on Wednesday, 9/24, at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 9424 N. Seventh Ave., in Phoenix. Nonmembers are encouraged to attend. The club's website can be found at azavclub dot org

This will be a music meeting, featuring a club-member’s two-channel gear. Speakers are Serenity Acoustics Super-7s… serenityacoustics.com/products/thesuper7.html. These are a product of GR Research's Danny Richey. The Super-7s are hybrid mag-planar/dual-12"-bass systems, all open-baffle. Midrange and treble are handled by four custom-built Bohlender-Graebener midrange (Neo-10 PDR) drivers and one 3" Neo-3 PDR tweeter in an MTM arrangement. Bass is reproduced by two servo-controlled 12" cones driven by high-power bass amps that are designed with the servo controls. The Seven's sensitivity is high at 97dB.

Two different pairs of mono amps will be demonstrated: first, a pair of 8-Watt, Single-Ended-Triode amps, Coincident Frankenstein IIs. These use a dual-triode 13EM7 gain-and-driver tube, a 300B output tube, and a 5U4GB high-Voltage rectifier. We'll also hear a pair of WAVAC MD-805m amps. These are 55-Watt SETs using an 805 output and 5751 and 6Y6GT gain and driver tubes.

The system will also include a Conrad-Johnson MET1 vacuum-tubed preamp and an Oppo 95 disc player.

Refreshments will be served.

The October meeting of The Arizona Audio Video Club will feature a live music performance by Devon Bridgewater and The Nuance, a ten-piece band of professional musicians. The meeting will start at 6:30 pm sharp on Wednesday, October 29th, at the Musician’s Union Hall, 1202 East Oak Street in Phoenix. Nonmembers are encouraged to attend. Devon Bridgewater has been performing professionally in Arizona since age 14! He specializes in jazz, classical, Latin, big band and country genres. The Nuance’s website can be found at nuancemusiclive dot com

The club's website can be found at azavclub dot org

The April, 2015 meeting of the Arizona Audio Video Club will be held at Record High on Wednesday, April 29th, starting at 7pm.

Record High is a vinyl record store with a great selection and a very friendly and knowledgeable staff. Their address is 4242 E. University Drive in Phoenix, just two minutes from the Hohokam/Red Mountain Freeway interchange. Record High's website can be found at recordhighinphoenix dot com

Non-members are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served.

The club’s website can be found at azavclub dot org