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Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Audio Society

The Pacific Northwest Audio Society has been dedicated to the exploration and enjoyment of fine music and electronics since its founding in 1978. Although the Society is based in the Seattle area, we serve the greater Pacific Northwest and draw enthusiasts from as far as Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. We meet each month for a new and exciting audio experience and our network includes many of the top experts in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.

We're a bunch of Audio enthusiasts with particular interest in "true to life" audio reproduction, who love to share our interests with each other: from our latest music or movie finds to the off-beat "look, I made a pair of speakers from a pair of tall-boys, plastic wrap and aluminum foil!"

Check out the Membership page for instructions on how to become a member. For about the price of a latte each month, you'll support the Audio Society and have access to a great audio experience each month and our ready-made network. If you’re in the area, be sure to join us for a meeting and see what the club is all about.
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Seattle-area Audiophiles...April 12th, 2012 - deHavilland Tubes, and Tapes all Night

Join us in April to meet Kara Chaffee and see her fabulous line of deHavilland HiFi tube gear. The evening will feature her Model 50A, 45 watt, triode-wired KT88 output stage, mono block amplifiers. She'll pair this with her UltraVerve 3 preamplifier features 100% hand wired point-to-point circuitry. It features the 6SN7 octal tube, and tube rectification using the 5AW4 / 5U4 rectifier.

To top it all off, Kara will also bring her Model 222 Vacuum Tube Magnetic Tape Playback Preamplifier, which we will pair with a reel-to-reel machine and reels from Bruce Brown's private stock at Puget Sound Studios.
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Join the Pacific Northwest Audio Society on Thursday, June 14th at 7:30 for a meeting with renowned recording engineer Todd Garfinkle of Ma Recordings for a live recording of budding Seattle woodwind artist Benjamin Zobel. Todd will demonstrate and discuss his unique and innovative recording techniques.

Guests are welcome. For more information, visit www.audiosociety.org.
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Seattle-area Audiophiles...September 13th, 2012 - The Arm as an Instrument...Durand Tonearms

Joel Durand, Professor of Composition and Associate Director of the University of Washington School of Music, will be our guest for the Audio Society's September meeting. We'll hear brilliant tonearm designs from Joel. His Galibier Stelvio II turntable will serve as the foundation and the Executive Committee is working with Joel to assemble the rest of a cutting-edge system along with the most inspiring vinyl we can get our hands on. Prepare to reach for the limits of today's turntable technology with some of the world's most advanced tonearms.

http://www.durand-tonearms.com
http://www.audiosociety.org
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October 12th, 2012 - The Speaker Contestants Meet Zinfinity

This month we have a very interesting combination. Our 2012 speaker contest winners and runners up will be bringing in their speakers for us to listen to. We'll play some of the judge’s selections from the contest. We also have Zsolt Mathe of Z-Infinity demonstrating his tube based preamp and amplifiers. We'll hear the Zinfinity amps through the club speakers as well as the speaker contest speakers.

Zsolt Mathe, founder of Z-Infinity Audio has had an early passion for music and electronics. Growing up in Europe, he was educated in a music school while building his first electronic amplifiers at an age of 12. When he moved to the Pacific Northwest, he studied at University of Washington earning degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics and Math. When he established Z-Infinity Audio he wanted to bring the heritage of what he learned growing up in Europe – both from his music and engineering education. As such, he applies these principles when building each Z-Infinity amplifier to ensure that they are musically excellent, simple and employ proven designs that stand the test of time.

http://www.zinfinityaudio.com
http://www.audiosociety.org
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Hello PNWAS,

I live in the Bothell area and I'm interested in what you guys are up to and perhaps joining your society. Not sure how you contact me with the new Agon rules so feel free to emial me at gregfisk@aol.com

Thank You,

Greg
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