Scott Dorsey, Author at Positive Feedback

AES 2024 Show Report

Scott Dorsey — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:06:52 +0000

The Audio Engineering Society show has been going on for many, many years, and for a long time was the only audio engineering show in the world. Because of its history, it has a number of unique features that you won't find at NAMM or the Tonmeistertagung. It's split between a scientific conference with papers... Read More »

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Capital Audiofest 2023

Scott Dorsey — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:50:03 +0000

It's that time of year again and the Capital Audiofest has come around and an awful lot of people went to it. An awful lot of people; it was just packed in the hallways and some of the more popular demo rooms were pretty solid. I went, but because it was so big and so... Read More »

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AES 2023 New York Convention

Scott Dorsey — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:41:07 +0000

The Audio Engineering Society has a big event every year that alternates between the east and west coasts of the US. What makes it interesting is that it's both a big trade show upstairs and an academic conference with papers downstairs. This makes it much more interesting than most audio events because it brings in... Read More »

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Audio Engineering Society 2023 Conference in Helsinki

Scott Dorsey — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:53:48 +0000

The Audio Engineering Society has been giving two conventions a year for decades, with an annual show that has traditionally moved between the east coast and west coast of the US in the fall, and a European show in the spring. While the American AES conventions are split about evenly between begin academic conventions and... Read More »

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Capital Audiofest 2022 - It is Alive!

Scott Dorsey — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 22:55:57 +0000

Audiofest! Things are opening and people are going out to events finally, and one of those events is the Capital Audiofest. If you're not familiar with the event, it's a show in Rockville Maryland where individual dealers and a few manufacturers book rooms in a hotel in order to demonstrate their products. The rooms are... Read More »

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AES 2022

Scott Dorsey — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:13:08 +0000

People queuing up for registration Trade Show Hall This year's AES show was a bit unusual. The number of exhibitors was down to perhaps a quarter of what it normally is, and the number of papers was similarly reduced. This was made worse by a number of vendors and presenters who had been scheduled to... Read More »

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Capitol Audiofest 2021 - The World Begins to Re-Open

Scott Dorsey — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:11:31 +0000

I wasn't intending on going to the Capitol Audiofest this year at all, what with so many things still being shut down due to the virus and all. I was enroute from Philadelphia where I was doing some work, down to my home in Tidewater Virginia and decided to stop off briefly and see what... Read More »

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Preferences in Reproduction

Scott Dorsey — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:42:50 +0000

I think it's fairly well-known in the high-end community that people tend to like what they like, and they tend to like different sounding systems. Many people like severely colored systems, but they like their kind of severely colored system and they don't like the kind of system their friend likes. Horn speaker people like... Read More »

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A Missive from the Recording Industry Regarding Covid-19

Scott Dorsey — Sun, 31 May 2020 18:30:22 +0000

While he was in quarantine from the terrible plague that was raging in London, Shakespeare wrote King Lear. That is a hard act to follow. I don't think I am going to manage writing anything nearly so significant while stuck here in quarantine. I have spent a lot of time talking to friends in the... Read More »

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Capitol Audiofest 2019 Photo-Essay

Scott Dorsey — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:38:35 +0000

I only got to spend a short time this year at the Capitol Audiofest but I sure got an eyeful and an earful of some of the newest and most interesting things happening in the high end audio industry today. This is just a short set of photos of a few of the things that... Read More »

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AES NY 2019

Scott Dorsey — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:30:53 +0000

The thing about the AES show is that it's traditionally been two shows: a trade show run by marketing people upstairs, selling off all the latest new pro audio hardware, while downstairs there are scientists and engineers talking about the latest new technology. What makes the AES different than any other show is that it... Read More »

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AES 2019 Dublin

Scott Dorsey — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:16:20 +0000

This year's European AES show was in Dublin, which seemed a bit of an odd choice for a location because there is not a huge audio production community there. So the show was small, but it was interesting because the people who did show up were dedicated folks. Room Treatment Usually at the US shows... Read More »

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2018 AES Convention

Scott Dorsey — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:50:23 +0000

"Well, you can take a crosstown bus if it's cold or if it's raining, And the animals will love it if you do." - The Zoo, Simon and Garfunkel The Audio Engineering Society convention is a strange two-lobed thing with a scientific conference downstairs and a trade show upstairs. In the past few years they... Read More »

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Ryan Tinsel Rackit-Compatible LP Storage Racks

Scott Dorsey — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:21:06 +0000

Back in November I published a review of the 33 Rackit Modular Record Storage Unit, a replacement for the original Per Madsen LP racks. Afterward, I was contacted by Ryan Tinsel who informed me that he also was making a replacement for the Madsen racks. Per Madsen in San Francisco made a modular storage system... Read More »

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Capitol Audiofest 2017

Scott Dorsey — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:48:20 +0000

The Capitol Audiofest was bigger than ever this year and I had less time than ever to see it. For those who don't know about the Capitol Audiofest, its an audio show that takes place in a hotel, with many demo rooms in the hotel being set up by a dealer, distributor, or occasionally a... Read More »

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Audio Engineering Society 2017 Convention in New York

Scott Dorsey — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:42:24 +0000

Intro The Audio Engineering Society convention is two different things happening at the same time. First of all there's a scientific conference downstairs with papers on the latest in audio technology. Secondly it's also a trade show selling pro audio gear. Both of these have many items that are of interest to the high end... Read More »

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33 Rackit Modular Record Storage Unit

Scott Dorsey — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:02:52 +0000

For many years, Per Madsen in San Francisco made elegantly designed modular record racks which were prized by record collectors and audiophiles. With oak LP modules as well as modules for CDs and cassettes, many thousands of his Rackit modules were sold over the years. But then, in 2008, Mr. Madsen decided to retire and... Read More »

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AES 2017 Berlin

Scott Dorsey — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:19:03 +0000

The Audio Engineering Shows in Europe are much smaller and more oriented toward papers than the trade show, which makes them a good opportunity to sit and talk with people actually doing real audio research. This year AES 2017 Berlin was no exception. The conference was held in a hotel on the former East German... Read More »

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AES 2016 Awards

Scott Dorsey — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:20:58 +0000

Best Product in Show Okay, I didn't actually see it in the show, only afterward, but it was in there somewhere. Kenetek is making a direct replacement for the optical attenuator module in the LA-3A compressors. Yeah, they have been making it for a couple years now but it was new to me and it's... Read More »

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AES 2016 Los Angeles

Scott Dorsey — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:15:04 +0000

The Audio Engineering Society puts on a convention in the US every year, and what makes it most interesting is that traditionally it has been both a trade show and a scientific conference with formal papers, both in the same building at the same time. This makes it more interesting than other trade shows, because... Read More »

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AES 2015 New York Awards

Scott Dorsey — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:11:13 +0000

Best Sound in Show The 78 project brought in a live acoustic band, Sean Walsh and Ray Williams, sat them down in the conference room, stuck a microphone in front of them and recorded them with a portable Presto lathe. The recording, well, it sounded like something out of an old Presto, but the band... Read More »

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AES 2015 New York

Scott Dorsey — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:02:39 +0000

As always, I enjoy writing about a professional audio conference for the high end community. The AES show is really two things, it's a bunch of people upstairs selling hardware mostly to professional production people, and it's a different bunch of people downstairs talking about science and technology. What makes the AES different from other... Read More »

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Capitol Audiofest 2015

Scott Dorsey — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 23:36:37 +0000

Audio is about listening. All of the good things in the high end community come out of listening and thinking about what you listened to. All of the problems in the high end community can only be solved by listening and thinking about what you listened to. There are very few places where people can... Read More »

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AES 2015 Europe, Best Of...

Scott Dorsey — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:09:16 +0000

Best New Product in Show DPA has come out with something new, a vocal microphone using their existing 4000-series capsules. You can order it as an omni, cardioid, or hypercardioid, and you can order it as a a handheld mike or as a head that fits onto a number of standard wireless systems. These are very... Read More »

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AES 2015 Europe

Scott Dorsey — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:05:32 +0000

The European AES show is a very different beast than the American shows, in part because of much lower vendor involvement. The trade show section is very small, filling up only a section of a hotel ballroom rather than a whole convention center as with the US shows, and that puts more emphasis on the... Read More »

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