Our 19^th Year Serving LA and OC Audiophiles

• Sunday, January 29^th, 2012, 2-5 PM, the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society will feature a brand new location for our friends at Definition Audio-Video in beautiful Santa Monica.  Bijan, our host, will give us the grand tour of the new facilities and entertain us with the very latest in analog and digital high-end gear. Featured electronics include Moon, Sim Audio, and NAD.  Featured speakers include Dynaudio and the amazing Sony SS AR1. Celebration Raffle Planned.  Lunch Served.  Free parking in rear and on the street.  New Members, Guests, and Visitors most welcome. JUST ANNOUNCED: We just signed up with Bel Canto Designs and PJ Zornosa will be our guest presenter for this event. We will also be featuring the hot new Joseph Audio Pulsar bookshelf monitor...a must audition!  This is a first for the Society for both manufacturers.

  Definition Audio-Video
  2934 Wilshire Blvd.
  Santa Monica. CA. 90403
  (310) 829-9888
  Definition Audio-Video on the web

• February: Coming Sunday, February 26^th from 2-5PM, the LA&OC Audio Society and Hi 5 Stereo present the newest and most exciting products from world famous Magnepan and GoldenEar. Hear the hottest electronics from ARC and Theta Digital. We'll be spinning vinyl and CDs! Great raffle planned! Lunch served. Plenty of free parking.

  HI-5 Stereo
  841 E. Whittier Blvd., Suite C
  La Habra, CA 90631
  (562) 691-4434
  Hi-5 Stereo on the web

• March: Coming Sunday, March 11^th, from 2-5 PM, the Society and Upscale Audio present brand new loudspeaker models from Sonus Faber!  Kevin Deal, Lifetime Member of our Society, will entertain us and feature the Premier of the NEW stand-mount Sonus Faber Amati Futura!  Click here for additional information on these superb $22,000 speakers.  I (Bob) want to sleep with them!
  
  We will also feature the NEW floor-standing Sonus Faber Amati Future (retail is $36,000, more sexy pictures by clicking here.)
  
  Representing Sumiko will be Jesse Luna and Norbert Schmied, first-time presenters to our Society.
  
  Enjoy a world of tube gear you have only imagined!  Vast selection includes Prima Luna, BAT, Cary, Manley, Mystere, and more.  More tubes than stars in the sky!  Raffle planned.  Lunch served.  Guests, visitors, and new members most welcome.  Free parking on the street.  See you at Upscale Audio in Upland (909) 931-9686.
  
  
• April: Evolution Audio Video presents GoldenEar Technology and Cary Audio for a superb afternoon of great presentations and music on Sunday, April 22, 2-5pm. Jay and Leon Frank plus John Guidi will roll out the red carpet for our Society. Meet Dave Kakenmaster, Sales Manager, of GoldenEar, as he presents the brand new Aon 2 and 3 speaker systems. Meet Tony Weber, Sales Manager of Cary Audio, as he presents their hot new tube and solid state products. This unforgettable afternoon will feature a delicious lunch, great raffle, and shopping fun. Please bring a folding chair for max comfort.

  Evolution Audio Video
  5341 Derry Avenue #S
  Agoura Hills, CA 91301
  (818) 879-1312
  Evolution A/V on the web

• May: Coming Saturday Evening May 19^th, 4-8 PM, please join the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society for the 7^th Annual Greatest Software Raffle Ever at Brooks Berdan, Ltd. in Monrovia!  Over 200 LPs/CD/SACDs to be raffled!  Hear the California Premier of the Wilson Alexandria XLS powered by the latest VTL Siegfried II Amplifiers.  Luke Manley, President of VTL, will be on hand to present this extraordinary system.  New Members, Guests, and Visitors most welcome. Dinner served. Plenty of free parking.
  

  Brooks Berdan, Ltd.
  110 W Olive Ave
  Monrovia, CA 91016
  (626) 359-9131
  Brooks Berdan on the web<

• June: T.H.E. SHOW and the Los Angeles and Orange County Audio Society Present T.H.E SHOW NEWPORT, June 1-3.  The largest, most FUN fine audio show for consumers in North America!  Expanded 2012 show features many more high-end manufacturers, tons more audio software new and used, more cases of Napa wine, more boxes of imported cigars, many more cool classic cars, and a bigger, more fabulous Live Jazz Festival, plus, new this year, featuring dozens of gourmet food trucks stationed in the parking lot between the hotels in Newport Beach next to the Hilton Hotel on MacArthur Blvd!  More Seminars, too, including John Atkinson and Michael Fremer hosting the biggest names in audio today. Click on T.H.E. Show Newport for all details.  Special low prices for Society members.
  

  T.H.E. SHOW: Newport Beach
  The Home Entertainment Show June 1, 2, & 3, 2012 Newport Beach, CA
  Phone: 1-702-242-4545
  Email: THE Show Newport

• July: Digital Ear, Tustin
  
  
• August: Sixth Annual Headroom and Friends in the Grand Ballroom of the Holiday Inn, Buena Park
  
  
• September: Acoustic Image, Studio City
  
  
• October: Dave Weinhart Design, Bel Air
  
  
• November: Sunny's Home Theater & Music Systems, Covina
  
  
• December 2^nd: Our Nineteenth Annual Society Gala and Awards Banquet is set for Sunday, December 2^nd, in the Grand Ballroom of the Holiday Inn in Buena Park, 11 AM - 3:30 PM.  It will be fantastic!  Big News: Tim de Paravicini, President of E.A.R. Great Britain, will receive the Founder's Award for 2012 and will journey from England to be with us! Meet the man Stereophile Magazine called "The King of Tubes."  Please save the date!!