VERY NEWEST GALA NEWS!! UNBELIEVABLE EVENT!! EVEN MANY MORE PRIZES THAN STARS IN THE SKY!! RESERVE TODAY!! IT WILL SELL OUT!! ALL THIS FUN IN JUST ONE AFTERNOON!! ITS THE ULTIMATE!! Dear Members and Friends, Even More Big News! 2013 is the 20th Anniversary of your Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society and the year of years! Our Show Newport hit record attendance. Our Society reached new membership highs. Our events have never been better attended and more fun! Now our 20th Anniversary Gala will be one for the record books, too!! On Sunday, December 8th, 11 AM - 3:30 PM, only 300 terrific audiophiles will enjoy a lavish prime rib buffet and more in comfortable surroundings at the Holiday Inn Grand Ballroom on Beach Blvd. at The 91 in Buena Park. We will toast Robert Harley, Editor of The Absolute Sound, winner of our Founders Award, for his amazing achievements past, present, and future as he delivers the Keynote Address. He will be introduced by our very own Kevin Deal of Upscale Audio. Pre-note this year will be delivered by renowned TAS Senior Reviewer Alan Taffel. Richard Beers will give us the roundup of Newport and highlights of the 2014 Show to come. I will present the Presidents Award. Plus, there will be an added MAJOR surprise this year never before presented at our Gala in the past 20 years...something brand new! The Society Humanitarian Award. It will go to the extraordinary Ray Kimber, President of Kimber Kable. I will personally introduce Ray and the award to the gathering. This is a great honor for me! PLUS, Neil Gader, Robert Greene, and Paul Seydor will be there from The Absolute Sound too!!!! And of course, we will have the huge Gala Raffle!!! Bigger this year because its our BIG anniversary! EVEN MORE RAFFLE PRIZES ANNOUNCED TO DATE: THE GRANDEST PRIZE From Kubala-Sosna Research: an 8 ft. Pair of Speaker Cables with Spades ELATION! MSRP $7800. OUR SPECIAL THANKS to Joe Kubala, President of Kubala-Sosna for donating the most valuable prize in Society history to celebrate our 20th anniversary!!! EVEN MORE MORE MORE WONDERFUL PRIZES • From PrimaLuna and Upscale Audio: a gorgeous, exceptionally-rated, new PrimaLuna Prologue Premium Integrated Amplifier MSRP $2299 Thank you Kevin Deal!! From Sunnys Audio Video A hot new Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Turntable, Tonearm, and Cartridge Setup!! High value turntable of the year!! Gorgeous to see and enjoy! Thank you Sunil! • From Audeze Alex Rosson, CEO of Audeze, is happy to donate TWO pairs of the breakthrough, brand new headphones in the highly-respected Audeze line-up: The LCD-X (valued at $1699) to the LAOCAS Annual Gala! Thank you Audeze! • From Vandersteen Loudspeakers: a Gift Certificate for $1150 for Model 1Ci or toward anything in the lineup. • From Nordost and Joe Reynolds: we would like to donate our new VALHALLA 2 US Power Cord 2 Meters long. This has a retail value of $6,000.00. Thank you so very much Joe!! • From Zesto Audio: George and I are pleased to donate our award winning Andros PS1 Phonostage valued at $4300 for the fabulous Gala. WOW and Thank you! • From Kimber Kable: a Gift Certificate for up to $2000 in your! choice of Kimber Products. • From Grado: The top of the line Grado PS1000 Headphones, a Fantastic pair of Headphones. My personal reviewing reference! Thank you John! $1695 • From Chesky and HD Tracks: a Gift Certificate for 12 Album Downloads any resolution! About $500. • From PS Audio: we will donate a 1 meter AC12 power cable, our best, a $799 value to your group. • From ALO: ALO Audio is going to be donating their BRAND NEW Island 24-bit/192k USB DAC/headphone amp!! This is VERY exciting (very cool kit): ALO Audio - The Island - $399 • Also from ALO: Three sets of RIO IEMs! Thank you ALO!!! • From Yarlung Records: a UNIQUE Yarlung Records LP test pressing of the GRAMMY AWARD winning album Antonio at The Broad: Music from Argentina. Priceless! Thank you Bob!! • From Cardas: Cardas will donate three of our new and highly reviewed Cardas EM5813 Ear Speakers!! These are $430 each! Thank you Andy Regan and George Cardas! • From Richard Beers and T.H.E. SHOW Las Vegas: Hotel for three Nights and Entrance to THE SHOW for two people. Two Prize Packages!!!! $1600. • From Ginko Audio and Dana Cable: a One Meter Pair Sapphire Reference RCA $900; one meter pair Sapphire RCA $600; one meter pair Onyx RCA $395 - $1895 in Prizes! • From Mark Waldrep and AIX: a $250 gift package of new Blu-ray music disks! • From Synergistic Research: five Winners. Each Winner receives one pack of HFT (five each HFT’s in a Pack) – Retail Value $ 299.00 each; One Winner: Receives one Each FEQ + three packs of HFT (five each HFT’s in a pack) – Total Retail Value $ 1,647.00. Thanks Synergistic and Peter Hansen! • From WyWires: a $1000 Gift Certificate and A $500 Gift Certificate for anything your heart desires in the WyWires lineup or custom made. $1500 in Prizes • From Marigo Audio: new Ultima High Definition Signature Mats improves all 5 inch digital media. Two Prizes for two lucky audiophiles! $239 each • From BybeeLabs and Jack Bybee: a Wonderful Set of four Quantum Purifier Speaker Bullets, $2800. Cutting edge prize! • From Owen Kwon Astell & Kern: a AK120 Digital Audio Player with DSD ($1,300), a pair of In-Ear-Monitor earphones($200), and a few hi-res music albums($150), that total up to $1,650 in retail value. Best DAP ever! • From Eastwind Import: a Gift Package of Rare and Imported CDs and LPs worth $250 • From BluePort Records: a Gift Package of custom CDs worth $250 • From Impex Records: a Gift Package of wonderful LPs worth $250 • From CEntrance: CEntrance Hi-Fi-M8 ($699) - this is the latest & one of the greatest portable DAC/headphone amp (up to 192k/24-bit) on the market. We will be getting the XL4 Edition (for use with computers and a Made for iPhone, iPod, iPad product). • CEntrance DACport ($399) - an incredible small class A USB DAC/headphone amp (96k/24-bit) with one of the lowest jitter measurements EVER measured by John Atkinson. Thank you CEntrance!! • From Albert Von Schweikert Loudspeakers: a pair of fantastic new VR-22 Loudspeakers. Read the Positive Feedback Review. Extraordinary! Albert will be at the Gala to help the winner! $2895. • From Schiit Audio: a Magni ($99) - This Giant Killer of a headphone amp competes with others five times its price. Plus a surprise To Be Announced!! • From CRL Cable: a wonderful cable prize from Chip Winston To Be Announced. • From Stein Music and Holger Stein: Speaker Match Signature $750 pair Speaker Match Plus $250 pair DE2 Demagnetizer $750 Super Naturals Signature $750 set of 3 Super Naturals Plus set of 3 $250 All accessories hand made in Germany by Stein Music and distributed in USA by FidelisAV. $2750 in Prizes! • From Benchmark: Benchmark would be happy to contribute a DAC1 with a retail price of $995. The winner can have the option of keeping the unit or returning the unit, paying the difference in dollars toward any different model. Thank you Rory!; • From Kent Loughlin and MIT: a just-released SL-Matrix performance grade USB Cable. Retail is $500.00 • From Marcia Martin and Reference Recordings: their latest QRP pressed LPs and newest CDs in a Gift package worth $250-300 produced by the amazing Keith Johnson • From AudioQuest and Joe Harley: 1 x DragonFly $249, 1 x Coffee USB $349, 1 x Vodka RJ/E (Ethernet) $339. Thank you AQ! • From QRP and Acoustic Sounds: three SELECT RCA Test Pressings picked by Chad for the Gala, $600 Thank you Chad! • From Bradford Portraits: Bradford Renaissance Portraits will be honored to donate a family or individual (sorry, no pets) sitting, plus one 16 x 20 wall portrait on canvas richly embellished by our renowned artist. This painting-like portrait has a value of $5000. EVEN MORE FUN ANNOUNCED! SPECIAL AUCTION! Pedego Comfort Cruiser, Electric Bicycle Donated by our Esteemed Member and Senior Vice President Art Womack, Proprietor of Pedego Cardiff by the Sea 2571 So. Coast Hwy 101 Cardiff, CA 92007 760-666-1126 AUCTION Donation: Pedego Comfort Cruiser: Gorgeous Dark Blue with white sidewalls Value $2100 Will be on display at the Gala before bidding! 7 speeds Top Speed 20 MPH Maximum Range 35 miles Pedego on the Web Thank you so very much Art on behalf of your Society! Pedego Electric Bikes The premier electric bike in the world! A great way to get out and exercise knowing you can conquer any hill with ease. Leave the car at home on the weekends and ride your way into healthy fun. Its just never too late to have fun. RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW***************** With only 300 seats available, it is time to reserve now for your place in audio history! Just $35 per person inclusive of lunch, tip, and tax. Raffle tickets will be sold at the door by our beautiful UCLA sorority girls. Sunday, Dec. 8th, 11 AM - 3:30PM. Please mail your check for $35 times number of persons to: LAOCAS c/o Hajime Sato 2477 Paseo Circulo Tustin, Ca 92782-9024 Please include your Email so Hajime can send you a confirmation! Dress is Holiday Casual. Cash Bar. Free Parking! All you can eat buffet includes vegetarian choices. On behalf of the Board of Directors, we look forward to greeting each of you at this momentous and delightful 20th anniversary event. Great listening to all, Bob P.S. Always check the Society Facebook Page for all the very latest news. Bob Levi President Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society Now with over 1400 members 8144 E. Bailey Way, Anaheim, CA 92808 (714) 281-5850 Los Angeles & Orange County Audio Society laocas for all future events!
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:12:15 +0000
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