Philadelphia area audio club?

This is a transplant of some of my posts at harmonic discord. My name is Hugh. I got started when a high end impresario named Herb Hamburger walked into the Lafayette Radio Electronics I worked at as a teenager and began talking about Thiel, Symdex, Gale and other little known, at the time, oddities. A bit later in Boston, I spent a good amount of time in the New England Conservatory of Music's great Jordan Hall, and then did a stint at the Apt Corp. in its heyday.

This club could have informal listening sessions in people's homes, orchestrate field trips to the better local dealers by prior appointment, petition these dealers to host manufacturers' dog and pony shows that interest us, or serve as auditioning panels for members who are designing equipment. Trips to unamplified concerts would also seem logical. (This rules out Verizon Hall on some occasions, incidentally.)

Philadelphia Area Audio Group (PAAG) is the current suggestion for a name. I'd like a permission by absence of objection to send a club listing to Stereophile, at least. I'll post suggested copy here for people to comment on. Or go ahead and fashion a statement of your own in the meantime for our perusal.

As noted, "we" had our first meeting recently courtesy of Rushton's hospitality. Let's just say it was tubes and rarefied vinyl, and there were no fist-fights to get the sweet-spot. (Sometimes people don't want exact equipment details published on the net since it is the net....)

If you have any other questions or business which can be answered (or dodged), please keep the dialogue going here.

Any of those dates and times appear to work for me, but in general I prefer avoiding mornings, where possible, due to the commute from CC. Thanks. Hugh

Just a quick note about a future event we have an opportunity to plan together. As a result of my merciless, albeit altruistic, spamming of Philly region resident audioasylum folks, we have contacted a high end speaker manufacturer and electronics importer in Ambler. He and his partner are willing to do a seminar for our group later in the year, "when the weather is nicer." The company prefers not to post here, so we agreed to leave the exact id vague - although how many high end speaker companies are there based in Ambler? It should be good.

I know of someone online in a different context who goes by the moniker "Nerfherder", and I want to join in thanking Rushton for hosting our assembly.

Maybe it's time again to bring up the standing invite I'm pretty sure we have to the high end dealer in Wilmington. Would that be of interest? If so, we also need to know what kinds of times are good for people in case the preferred Sunday afternoon is not an option. I'll wait for some feedback here or off the list. Thanks. Hugh

Hi Dave. The group is highly informal, with no official structure or membership.

We're sort of waiting for the next seminar suggestion or listening session to be made and attract people's attention.

It's spring. Should I try that local speaker manufacturer again? Did anyone go to Montreal? Going to the June San Francisco show?