Sydney Audio Club Meeting - June 2023
Sunday 18th June 2023: Sydney Audio Club's Classic and Vintage meeting.
Dear members and friends of Sydney Audio Club,
Our Classic & Vintage meeting is the one meeting in the year where your input is the major factor in the success of the event.
The “Classic and Vintage” meeting is the meeting where we showcase HiFi from the past.
There are two aspects to the meeting.
Where do we get this equipment from?.. Yes,.. from you!
So, get up to your attic, into the cupboard under the stairs, or into the garage, or wherever it is you keep that old, once treasured valve, amp, turntable, speaker, cassette deck, Quad brochure, valve tester, record cleaner or whatever it is or was that rocked your particular boat back then.
What is the period covered? Each year we bring forward the qualifying year to allow new products and technologies to make their debut. For this one anything before the year 2005. The older, odder, more out there, the better, so get digging!
We always have a hell of a job selecting and matching gear so we ask that you fill in and return the attached form as best you can and as soon as you can.
We want offers in either or both of the following two categories:
We have had brochures, adverts, free gifts, bits of speaker drivers, cartridge inspection scopes, master tapes, even a portable cardboard record player for missionaries! (Yes that is what I said!) as well as iconic amps, turntables, speakers and so on.
We always have a great event, testament to you, our fantastic and enthusiastic members, so over to you, find some gear to bring, fill in this form and send it back as soon as possible please, to: enquiries@sydneyaudioclub.org.au
George Davidson, Vice President
For people who would like to play files, please bring in a memory stick and arrive 10-15 minutes before the meeting and help copy the files into a temporary folder in the laptop to save valuable meeting time.
The second half of the music sessions will be our popular BYO. Members and guests are welcome to offer music to share with us all. So bring along your favourite music on CD, SACD or USB thumb/flash drive can also be played.
All we ask is that the music and recordings be interesting. We'll ask you to tell us a little about the artist/recording before it is played. Tracks over 6 minutes will be faded out, to give everyone a fair go.
Whether you are a novice or a seasoned veteran, you will have the opportunity to listen, learn and share your experiences with others. Feel free to come and hear the capabilities of the system, or to just share the experience with like-minded music lovers in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
Guests are welcome – we are a very friendly club so you don't need to know anyone to join us for an afternoon of fine music and sound.
Venue: Epping Creative Centre, Dence Park
Address: 26 Stanley Road, Epping
When: Sunday 18th June 2023.
Doors open from 1.30 pm to meet and chat with members before the meeting.
The Meeting starts at 2pm and finishes at 5pm.
Please sign-in in the visitors’ book. You are not required to wear a mask but you may wish to do so.
Hope to see you there on Sunday.
Bertrand Braganca
President
Sydney Audio Club Inc.
W: http://www.sydneyaudioclub.org/
FB: <https://www.facebook.com/sydneyaudioclub>
Our Classic & Vintage meeting is the one meeting in the year where your input is the major factor in the success of the event.
The “Classic and Vintage” meeting is the meeting where we showcase HiFi from the past.
There are two aspects to the meeting.
- We try to have a range of operational equipment for you to listen to.
- We also like to have a range of equipment on show, just for you to look at. (and maybe to provoke memories of days gone by, bargains you missed, gear you lusted after, or audio ambitions you once held.).
Where do we get this equipment from?.. Yes,.. from you!
So, get up to your attic, into the cupboard under the stairs, or into the garage, or wherever it is you keep that old, once treasured valve, amp, turntable, speaker, cassette deck, Quad brochure, valve tester, record cleaner or whatever it is or was that rocked your particular boat back then.
What is the period covered? Each year we bring forward the qualifying year to allow new products and technologies to make their debut. For this one anything before the year 2005. The older, odder, more out there, the better, so get digging!
We always have a hell of a job selecting and matching gear so we ask that you fill in and return the attached form as best you can and as soon as you can.
We want offers in either or both of the following two categories:
- Category 1, Working functioning equipment, that can be used to listen to at the meeting. We will match it with partnering gear as best we can, being sympathetic to sound, era and electronic/power matching of equipment we partner it with, but logistics mean we make the final decisions about what gets played and what it is paired with on the day. (We hope that offers in this category agree to being exhibited (category 2) even if they do not get used for playback)
- Category 2, HiFi Eye Candy. Equipment, (anything remotely audio) that can be exhibited around the room on the day. We have in the past had some fascinating and quirky items and of course (to us “audiophiles”) some gorgeous bits of gear from times gone by. It can literally be anything related (even remotely) to audio, Hifi, music etc.
We have had brochures, adverts, free gifts, bits of speaker drivers, cartridge inspection scopes, master tapes, even a portable cardboard record player for missionaries! (Yes that is what I said!) as well as iconic amps, turntables, speakers and so on.
We always have a great event, testament to you, our fantastic and enthusiastic members, so over to you, find some gear to bring, fill in this form and send it back as soon as possible please, to: enquiries@sydneyaudioclub.org.au
George Davidson, Vice President
For people who would like to play files, please bring in a memory stick and arrive 10-15 minutes before the meeting and help copy the files into a temporary folder in the laptop to save valuable meeting time.
The second half of the music sessions will be our popular BYO. Members and guests are welcome to offer music to share with us all. So bring along your favourite music on CD, SACD or USB thumb/flash drive can also be played.
All we ask is that the music and recordings be interesting. We'll ask you to tell us a little about the artist/recording before it is played. Tracks over 6 minutes will be faded out, to give everyone a fair go.
Whether you are a novice or a seasoned veteran, you will have the opportunity to listen, learn and share your experiences with others. Feel free to come and hear the capabilities of the system, or to just share the experience with like-minded music lovers in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
Guests are welcome – we are a very friendly club so you don't need to know anyone to join us for an afternoon of fine music and sound.
Venue: Epping Creative Centre, Dence Park
Address: 26 Stanley Road, Epping
When: Sunday 18th June 2023.
Doors open from 1.30 pm to meet and chat with members before the meeting.
The Meeting starts at 2pm and finishes at 5pm.
Please sign-in in the visitors’ book. You are not required to wear a mask but you may wish to do so.
Hope to see you there on Sunday.
Bertrand Braganca
President
Sydney Audio Club Inc.
W: http://www.sydneyaudioclub.org/
FB: <https://www.facebook.com/sydneyaudioclub>